RE: a way to use Ampersands in xsl file

Why do you say

"I will not use &amp;"?

It's the right way. It's the only way. If you "will not use &amp;" you
will be writing in a syntax which looks a lot like XML, but ISN'T XML.

OK - that's not quite true. You could use CDATA sections instead, but
the net effect is the same - you are escaping the & character (and some
other special characters, like < and >)

Dan.

-----Original Message-----
From: 1alp(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de [mailto:1alp(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de]
Sent: 12 February 2003 13:42
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] a way to use Ampersands in xsl file


hello
there is a sample of my xsl file.
in "Line 150" i use an Ampersand.
After trying to parse this with saxon i get this Error:

############################################################
Fatal error reported by XML parser: name expected (found " ")
  URL:    file:/C://myfile.xsl
  Line:   150
  Column: 23
Transformation failed
#############################################################
is there a way to use Ampersands (i will not use  &amp;)in xsl files?

thanks

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/document">
<html>
<head><title></title></head>
<body>
<pre>
<br/>

         Line1 text....................
         Line2 text....................
         Line3 text....................
         line......................  

      
         Line 150 ...ouer company & some of other clients....
         line  text ......................
       

</pre>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet

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