Re: To avoid converting html entities

Yes.. That's exactly what I wanted: to have this _escaped_ xml
fragment as the value of a hidden form variable..

Thanks,

Ahsan

On 6/10/05, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> wrote:
> > What I'm trying to do is: output this same data as  the value of a
> > hidden element in a form. When the user submits the form, this exact
> > data has to be passed to the next web service call..
> When you say "this exact data", I assume you mean "the XML document that
> this data represents". An XML document can't be held in an attribute of an
> HTML document except by escaping it, so trying to disable escaping isn't
> going to work. Instead you need to unescape the document (i.e., to parse it)
> before submitting it to the web service.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > On 6/9/05, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> wrote:
> > > > In my xml data source, I have the following element:
> > > >
> > > > -------------
> > > > <PostData>EK,,,,,75,,,,,DXB,,,,,CDG,,,,,20050901,,,,,1500,,,,,
> > 20050901,,,,,2010,,,,,B,,,,,0,430,EK,,,,,74,,,,,CDG,,,,,DXB,,,
> > ,,20051001,,,,
> > > ,1530,,,,,20051002,,,,,10,,,,,B,,>
> > > ,,,0,400,300000,355000,0,0,0,0,AED,86270166,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,,&lt
> > > > ;RulesInfo&gt;&lt;UniqueKey&gt;1&lt;/UniqueKey&gt;&lt;QuoteNum
> > > ...
> > >
> > > yuk. If you have any chance at all of fixing the process
> > that created this
> > > horror, then do so.
> > >
> > > > I want to select (and output) the above data, without
> > converting the
> > > > html entities above to < & >, etc.
> > > The XML parser automatically converts &lt; to <, you can't
> > prevent that. The
> > > XSLT serializer normally converts < back to &lt;. You can
> > prevent that, in
> > > some circumstances, by using disable-output-escaping.
> > > > The xsl (snippet) is as follows:
> > > >
> > > > <input type="hidden">
> > > > <xsl:attribute name="value">
> > > > <xsl:value-of select="PostData" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
> > > > </xsl:attribute>
> > > > </input>
> > > >
> > > > The output method is set to html... & I'm using MSXSL
> > (i.e xslt 1.0)
> > > You can't use disable-output-escaping when writing
> > attribute values. And I'm
> > > not sure why you want to. What HTML are you actually trying
> > to create?
> > > Michael Kay
> > > http://www.saxonica.com/
> > --~------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> > > To unsubscribe, go to: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/
> > > or e-mail: 
> > > <mailto:xsl-list-unsubscribe(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
> > > --~--
> >
> > --
> > Muted Musings - http://doubleletter.blogspot.com
> >
> > --~------------------------------------------------------------------
> > XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> > To unsubscribe, go to: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/
> > or e-mail: 
> > <mailto:xsl-list-unsubscribe(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
> > --~--
>
>
> --~------------------------------------------------------------------
> XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> To unsubscribe, go to: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/
> or e-mail: 
> <mailto:xsl-list-unsubscribe(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
> --~--

-- 
Muted Musings - http://doubleletter.blogspot.com

--~------------------------------------------------------------------
XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
To unsubscribe, go to: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/
or e-mail: <mailto:xsl-list-unsubscribe(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
--~--