RE: To avoid converting html entities

> 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/
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