THanks much Wendell I got it perfect now. Will make
the change. I guess you saved me from trouble down the
road :)
--- Wendell Piez <wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Abhi,
It's not whitespace inside the &_amp; entity, it's
the whitespace between
the output ampersand (an actual ampersand, when you
have disabled output
escaping) and the string that is to be the name of
your newly constructed
entity reference, that will be a problem.
Look at the code of your post this morning and
you'll see that there is
whitespace that will appear *after* your ampersand
but *before* the value
of the attribute representing the entity name:
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
&_amp;
</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="@entity-name"/>
... the whitespace after the &_amp; and before the
close </xsl:text> tag is
what will get you.
Really all you have to do is to run the code you
sent to the list this a.m.
(which was much like above) exactly as given, and
then try to parse the
result. (This kind of fragility is one of several
reasons why we frown on
d-o-e-based approaches except as a last resort.)
Cheers,
Wendell
At 04:32 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote:
Hi Wendell,
Yes now I get what you were saying. But the white
space is before
"&" and not as "& amp;" so I do not see any
reason why
<xsl:text> &</xsl:text> should not work the
same
way as
<xsl:text>&</xsl:text>.
The only thing that may happen is that there will
be
an extra space in the output xml if I am correct.
Help me understand if you think I did not catch
what
you are trying to say.
Thanks,
Abhi
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