Subject: Special characters and XML-to-WML problem From: "Michael J. Hudson" <mhudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:03:43 -0400 |
Greetings all, Here's the problem: I'm converting an XML file to a WML file the problem is I have a <A HREF> tag in the XSLT script that I want to end up looking like this in the WML file: <A HREF="http://myserver.com:8001/addItemToOrder?item_name=CPU&order_id=0&user_name=jdoe"> The problem with this is the '&' special characters. In the XSLT script, I have to reference them using their entity values: & I know how to usually get around this problem, which is using the disable-escape-outputing attribute for either <xsl:text> ro <xsl:value-of>. However, this solution only works for text inside of elements, never for attribute values. For some reason, attributes are immune to escaping special characters. I don't want to use <xml:output method="text">, cause this is just wrong and ugly. I can use <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" doctype-system="http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml" doctype-public="-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"/> This does solve that problem, but it creates another. The DOCTYPE that appears is: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml"> I want the name of the document type to be WML, not HTML. With method="xml", you can do this... but not with method="html". My final solution is to do the method="html" as done above, but take out the doctype-system and doctype-public attributes, and just do a CDATA for the DOCTYPE like this: <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">]]></xsl:text> This is least messiest solution that works... however, I still don't like it... is there a better way? Can I escape characters in an attribute? Any help would be great! Thanks! ------------------------------------- Michael J. Hudson Software/Framework Engineer mhudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cell-phone: 703.362.8039 voice-mail: 703.827.0638 ext. 4786 fax: 703.734.0987 Blueprint Technologies "The E-Solution Architect" http://www.blueprinttech.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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