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RE: MSXML and unwanted entity output

2004-05-27 04:02:32
If you want the output to be XML, then the special JavaScript characters
must be escaped according to XML conventions.

If you want the output to be HTML containing <script> elements, then use
method="html" on xsl:output, and the special rules for the <script> element
in HTML will be applied.

Michael Kay 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Scott [mailto:fastidious007(_at_)fastmail(_dot_)fm] 
Sent: 27 May 2004 10:15
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] MSXML and unwanted entity output

So how can I get a bit of javascript that is full of &&'s and <'s to
output 
as &&'s and <'s

Do I have to use something like (Example fromn FAQ) for every 
instance of
these characters in the Javascript?:
<xsl:value-of select="'&lt;BR/&gt;'" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>



On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:20:54 +0100, "Alex Scott"
<fastidious007(_at_)fastmail(_dot_)fm> said:
Ok, 

So are you saying that this can't be change in the XSL as whatever
characters I use it will not make any difference to the output,
and this is therefore a problem (Supposedly further down 
the line)in the
XML parser?
---
Alex.

On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:05:51 +0100, "Michael Kay" 
<mhk(_at_)mhk(_dot_)me(_dot_)uk> said:

<![CDATA[&&]]>
Will out put as an entity:
&amp;&amp;


Does this look like a problem in the output type, or is there 
a way I can
alter the XSLT so that I can get 
the HTML returned as the same stuff I put in i.e. 
&& or <

This is a FAQ. 

An XSLT transformation parses your source XML, creates a tree
representation
of the source, transforms it, and then serializes the result tree.
Lexical
details of the source XML, for example whether attributes 
use single
quotes
or double quotes, are lost in this process. The difference between
<![CDATA[&&]]> and &amp;&amp; is one of these lexical details.

You would want the test "contains(., '&amp;')" to work 
regardless how the
ampersand was written in the source, surely?

Michael Kay



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