Subject: Re: [xsl] Problem with ampersands From: Rashmi Rubdi <dev_subscriptions@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:16:56 -0700 (PDT) |
If you have control over the original XML you can use <!CDATA[[ & or & ]]> --- andrew welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 9/26/06, Jeff Sese <jsese@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have this requirement from a client to retain > all the entity > > references in their xml files after transformation > so what i did was > > collect all the entities in the DTD and then > created a character-map for > > single-character entities. For multi-character > ones, i created a used a > > function to search and replace all occurrences in > a text node. My > > problem is when i use the function and return the > value, xslt escapes > > the ampersand symbol as & and i don't know how > i can unescape it > > without unescaping the real ampersand character. > > The client shouldn't care whether the characters are > entities or not > unless they plan on hand editing the files - once > the client parses > the XML you give them using an XML parser they won't > know whether the > characteres were represented on disk as entities, > character references > or the characters themselves - the information isn't > contained in the > infoset. XSLT deals with infosets, which is why > what you are trying > to isn't possible without resorting to d-o-e or > extensions. > > If you really must deliver XML with the entities in > place I would > suggest using a placeholder element (eg <entityA/>) > to represent it in > the output and the post process the result with a > suitable language to > replace the placeholder elements with the entity > references. > > cheers > andrew > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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