Not sure exactly how to implement this, but  is the & (I think, this is
the ascii number anyway) just use that where you absolutely need to insert a
single & in the output.
Cheers
Simon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piers Kittel" <work(_at_)biased(_dot_)org>
To: <XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 1:37 PM
Subject: [xsl] Ampersand problem
Hello all
Am having slight problems with the Ampersand problem. I do know "&"
shouldn't
be used, and "&" should be used instead, as I read in an message dated
31st
Jan 2001 ( http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-
list/archives/200101/msg01502.html ) but I've got a small problem with
Quicktime and the "&" thing.
What I'm trying to do is to embed a Quicktime movie in an HTML page, and
Quicktime uses SMIL to display the video and links that comes up at
certain
times. The links goes to other Quicktime movies. The links has to have
URL's
with &'s in them. Not a serious problem in itself, IE is fine with that.
But
when a link is clicked in Quicktime, it loads up the new SMIL file from
the
server. Which is just fine.
The thing is that I'm using XSLT to create the HTML and SMIL files to
contain
the correct clips, and the parser I use (Xalan) outputs "&" as "&" but
when
Quicktime tries to parse the URL, it chokes and crashes. It *has* to have
"&"
in the URL - "&" will not work.
So how do I make Xalan output a pure "&" in the SMIL file?
Thanks very much in advance for your help
Cheers - Piers
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