From: mark_fletcher(_at_)peoplesoft(_dot_)com
[mailto:mark_fletcher(_at_)peoplesoft(_dot_)com]
Yes, I guess 'character references' is what I meant. But, I'm not sure
what you mean when you say 'no sequence of pure XSLT transformations can
lead to this result'.
Do you mean that what I'm trying to do is not supported? Or that the
escaped ampersands in the output text should not be occurring?
This is unlikely to be a problem with your XSLT file because it would appear to
be impossible to generate the result you are getting with XSLT.
XSLT only deals with literal characters not character references.
This is somewhat simplification of what happens when you pass a document. The
XML
Parser converts your XML file to a Unicode DOM tree (converting all character
references to there literal character). Your XSLT processor converts this to
another DOM tree, which you serialize to an XML file.
You problem is probably caused by faulty serialization of the DOM tree or you
are post processing the XML file without realizing it.
Edward Middleton
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list