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Re: Global disable-output-escaping
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Global disable-output-escaping
- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism at maden dot org>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:26:03 -0700
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At 21:25 27-09-2001, Joshua.Kuswadi@BTFinancialgroup.com wrote:
>I'm converting XML with XSL to produce CSV files and the XML documents may
>contain the string '&' as part of a text node. For example <name>J
>& G Bloggs</name>.
>
>When the XSL has <xsl:value-of select="name"/>, it returns 'J & G
>Bloggs', rather than the desired, 'J & G Bloggs'.
No, it returns "J & G Bloggs". Serializing the output as XML causes the
bytes "J & G Bloggs" to be written to the file, which is correct.
>Is there anyway to get our desired result without having to change all the
><xsl:value-of> elements in all our CSV stylesheets to include the
>disable-output-escaping="yes" attribute?
If you don't want XML output (and CSV is not XML), try requesting something
other than XML output. For instance, try using
<xsl:output method="text"/>
HTH,
Chris
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