Abhi,
If you compare the two examples, you will see that one has whitespace
around the "&_amp;" character.
"&_foo;" (without the _) is an entity reference (assuming, of course, it's
been declared as such). But
"&
foo;"
is not.
The xsl:text instruction copies its data content to the output -- data
content including whitespace. Whitespace is not stripped inside xsl:text;
this is a feature. You need to mind that it doesn't create a bug.
Cheers,
Wendell
At 02:41 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote:
I did not understand what you mean to say. Could you
please explain. Thanks in advance
abhi
--- Wendell Piez <wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
> Abhi,
>
> Me again, but only with a persnickety warning. It
> might have been some
> piece of software that did it, but
>
> At 11:08 AM 11/11/2003, you wrote:
> >Thanks much. Your solution
> ><xsl:template match="node2">
> > <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
> > &
> > </xsl:text>
> ><xsl:value-of select="@attr/>;
> ></xsl:template>
>
> which won't work for the purpose of hijacking the
> serializer to output
> entity references, whereas
>
> <xsl:template match="node2">
> <xsl:text
> disable-output-escaping="yes">&</xsl:text>
> <xsl:value-of select="@attr/>;
> </xsl:template>
>
> will work.
>
> See why?
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
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