Re: xslt replace special characters

thanks mike. so the user has to input & or &3038; if their urlconsisys of an '&' .


alice

From: Mike Brown <mike(_at_)skew(_dot_)org>
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Subject: Re: [xsl] xslt replace special characters
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:31:23 -0700 (MST)

Alice Fan wrote:

> ok. one last question... the search and replace works now. but when ipass

> in a '&' character to the xsl it totally dies.  i'm using xalan as my
> processor.  is there a wy in xslt to catch this and convert it to &amp;
> before it tries to parse it?

No. The XSLT processor relies on an XML parser for its input, and theparser

will reject a malformed document because those are the rules of XML

processing. You must provide well-formed input to the parser if you want ittopass the important parts of the document to the next application in thechain.


   - Mike
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