[XALANJ-2084] ISO-8859-1 Encoding exception processing stylesheet

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.7
• Component/s: transformation
• Security Level: No security risk; visible to anyone (Ordinary problems in Xalan projects. Anybody can view the issue.)
• Environment: jdk 1.5, windows xp sp2
• Assignee: Brian Minchau
• Reporter: Graeme Rocher
• Created: 23/Mar/05 00:57
• Updated: 09/Aug/05 14:47
• Resolved: 08/Jun/05 07:15

Description

I am getting the following exception when attempting to process an XML file with Xalan 2.6 called from Ant. I have tested this outside Ant using jEdits XSLT transformation engine and it produces the same result:

[xslt] Loading stylesheet C:\projects\aclient\build\work\templates\stylesheets\main.xsl
[xslt] : Fatal Error! org.xml.sax.SAXException: Attempt to output character of integral value 8230 that is not represented in specified output encoding of ISO-8859-1. Cause: org.xml.sax.SAXExcept
ion: Attempt to output character of integral value 8230 that is not represented in specified output encoding of ISO-8859-1.
[xslt] Failed to process C:\projects\aclient\src\content\page.xml

This seems similar to a problem reported in bug 1799 (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XALANJ-1799) although in this case upgrading to 2.6 solved the problem and I am already running 2.6.

Character 8230 of the ISO-8859-1 character set is the elipse (...), so why the error is being thrown is beyond me

I downgraded to Xalan 2.5.3 and this solved the problem, but thought I would raise awareness of this issue regardless.