RE: special characters decimal code display

Thanks a lot for your help. It works beautifully.

Ming

> Preferably, redesign your input. When a "<" represents markup, it's best
> not
> to pretend it doesn't, which is what you are doing by escaping it as
> &#60;.
>
> If you can't do that, you might be able to dig yourself out of the hole
> using disable-output-escaping.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mingqiang Yu [mailto:myu(_at_)lanl(_dot_)gov]
> > Sent: 18 November 2005 05:09
> > To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> > Subject: [xsl] special characters decimal code display
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is part of my xml file. As you can see that, all the special
> > characters are encoded using their decimal codes. But when I
> > output them
> > in the stylesheet using <xsl:value-of select="."/>, all
> > special characters
> > are converted to their entity format. For example, &#60; is
> > converted to
> > &lt;, &#62 is converted to &gt;, etc. But what I need is to convert
> > "&#60;sup&#62;&#38;plusmn&#59;&#60;&#47;sup&#62;" to
> > "<sup>&plusmn;</sup>"
> > so the stylesheet can display them correctly. Can anyone help on this
> > issue? Many thanks. -Ming
> >
> > ********************************************
> > <title item='1'
> > db='sny'>On&#32;the&#32;direct&#32;decays&#32;K&#60;sup&#62;&#
> > 38;plusmn&#59;&#60;&#47;sup
> > &#62;&#38;rarr&#59;&#38;pi&#59;&#60;sup&#62;&#38;plusmn&#59;&#
> > 60;&#47;sup&#62;&#43;&#38;gamma&#59;&#43;&#
> > 38;gamma&#59;&#44;&#32;K&#60;sup&#62;&#38;plusmn&#59;&#60;&#47
> > ;sup&#62;&#38;rarr&#59;&#38;pi&#59;&#60;sup
> > &#62;&#38;plusmn&#59;&#60;&#47;sup&#62;&#43;&#38;gamma&#59;&#4
> > 3;e&#60;sup&#62;&#43;&#60;&#47;sup&#62;&#43
> > ;e&#60;sup&#62;&#45;&#60;&#47;sup&#62;&#32;and&#32;K&#60;sup&#
> > 62;&#38;plusmn&#59;&#60;&#47;sup&#62;&#38;r
> > arr&#59;&#38;pi&#59;&#60;sup&#62;&#38;plusmn&#59;&#60;&#47;sup
> > &#62;&#43;e&#60;sup&#62;&#43;&#60;&#47;sup&
> > #62;&#43;e&#60;sup&#62;&#45;&#60;&#47;sup&#62;</title>
> >
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