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Re: Special Characters for Position Sepcific Output.
- To: "Avula, Raj" <RAvula at firstam dot com>
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Special Characters for Position Sepcific Output.
- From: Jeni Tennison <mail at jenitennison dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:28:42 +0100
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- Organization: Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
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Hi Raj,
William Lam wrote:
>> Play with
>>
>> xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"
>>
>> It will output & instead of &
And you wrote:
> Thanks. It worked perfect
Don't use disable-output-escaping in this situation. You should only
disable output escaping when you're generating something that is
not-quite XML. As you describe your problem, you're generating
something that is not-at-all XML, but rather text. In that case,
follow Kevin Nardi's advice:
>> If you are outputting straight text, then use <xsl:output
>> method="text" />, and your "&" should be output as "&" (as I
>> understand it...I could be wrong), and your problem is solved.
Cheers,
Jeni
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