Re: Is there a way to translate entities into their character equivalents?

["Steve Carton" <scarton at retrievalsystems dot com>]

I can --- but the logic in the live script is much more complex, mostly
because of the need to match start and end tags that, in HTML, can be
forgiven.  It would be ever so much simpler to build the logic the way I'm
describing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Williams <Kevin.Williams@ultraprise.com>
To: 'xsl-list@mulberrytech.com' <xsl-list@mulberrytech.com>
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2000 2:10 PM
Subject: RE: Is there a way to translate entities into their character
equivalents?


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Carton [mailto:scarton@retrievalsystems.com]
>>
>> I'd like to cheat in my style sheet and do something like this:
>>
>> <xsl:if test="blahblahblah">&lt;a href="go away"&gt;</xsl:if>
>> <xsl:apply-templates/>
>> &lt;/a&gt;Steve,
>
>Why on earth would you do this? Why not
>
><xsl:if test="blahblahblah">
>  <xsl:element name="a">
>    <xsl:attribute name="href">go away</xsl:attribute>
>  </xsl:element>
></xsl:if>
>
>- Kevin
>
>
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