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RE: Converting entities into string
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Converting entities into string
- From: Joerg Pietschmann <joerg dot pietschmann at zkb dot ch>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:43:25 +0200
- Organization: ZKB
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
"Michael Kay" <mhkay@iclway.co.uk> wrote
> someone else asked:
> > In short: how can i convert the '<' and '>' into '<' and
> > '>' easily?
>
> Though why you should want to do something so weird has me quite baffled.
Think of "Display HTML/XML source on a web page". Another
(rather weird) use is embedding XML-Snippets into an invocation
of an XML-based interface, for example for storage into a non-XML
aware database (yes, the world *could* be a better place if...)
Regards
J.Pietschmann
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