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RE: Keeping "&" in xml data when parsed
- From: "Julian Reschke" <julian dot reschke at gmx dot de>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:51:49 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Keeping "&" in xml data when parsed
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> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of James Knight
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:51 PM
> To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] Keeping "&" in xml data when parsed
>
>
> I've been searching in the archives, but with no luck on this one:
>
> My database is pulling out a company name, "A & B", and writing
> it into an
> xml file.
Then it isn't an XML file.
> When I try to parse the xml through a stylesheet, I get a complaint that
> the entity name must follow the ampersand immediately, i.e. the parser
> thinks it's a mis-typed entity.
>
> Bearing in mind that I don't have access to the database, is
> there any way
> to warn the stylesheet not to attempt to translate the ampersand?
No, the stylesheet won't even see the "&" -- it's rejected by the XML
parser. The fix is to produce correct XML (here: to replace "&" by "&").
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