Dear Wendell,
Thanks much. Your solution
<xsl:template match="node2">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
&
</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="@attr/>;
</xsl:template>
works for me. Yes I am trying to generate entity
references on the fly. Actually my soucr xml is
generated by one module and then I need to convert
that source to this one meaning the source will
contain the entity names as a value of an attribute. I
will use those values as to reference to the entities.
The output from this conversion will then be used by
another module. Hence I need to have & character in my
output. I am using XMLSPY and it does support the
feature you said.
Thanks a lot.
Abhi
--- Wendell Piez <wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Abhijit,
It looks like you are trying to generate entity
references on the fly,
which is against the XSLT processing paradigm.
Entities are part of XML
considered as a lexical object (string of characters
including markup),
whereas XSLT operates on XML considered as a parsed
data object (a tree of
nodes). Once the document has been parsed into this
tree, all entities have
been resolved. Likewise, most XSLT serializers do
not provide any means for
generating entity references instead of the
whatever-it-is that they refer to.
Since most XSLT processors can serialize their
output, however (i.e., since
most, in practice, write their output as marked-up
text to a file), there
is a workaround that *may* be available to you.
So instead of
<xsl:template match="node2">
&<xsl:value-of select="@attr/>;
</xsl:template>
try
<xsl:template match="node2">
<xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="yes">&</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="@attr/>;
</xsl:template>
and see if it works better for you.
Note that is ONLY works if your XSLT transformation
is directly followed by
a serialization (i.e. you are writing your output as
a stream of characters
somewhere), and if your processor implements this
optional feature of the
language.
It will NOT work in many pipeline architectures or
in some processors that
are built to ply the straight-and-narrow, such as
the Transformiix
processor used in Mozilla.
So beware! this is a trick you should use knowing
the risks.
-- Wendell
At 06:13 PM 11/10/2003, you wrote:
Hi,
I am using xsl for xml to xml tranformation. I want
to
pring & character in my output xml....
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