RE: [xsl] amp

[Geoff <ghank at lawlead dot com>]

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 03:24, Stevenson Ngila wrote:
> The data come from the DB, and it's the user who feed the DB hence can not
> control user from using '&'. Is there  a way of escaping this character if
> the data comes from the DB? I have resaerched all over on the  internet but
> have not gotten an appropriate explaination. It tells me to use '&' but
> this data comes from the DB, how can i pick all '&' and trasform them in to
> '&'.
> 

It seems to me there is a fairly simple solution to this. Just alter the
script(s) that insert data from the users or alter the script that
converts db records into xml to search for & and replace it with &amp.
Be careful not replace the "&" in "&amp" though so maybe you should
search for " & " (space ampersand space). Any decent language will have
a replace function for strings or you could even use regular
expressions. You will probably need to use this in many places so you
would be well off to use a function or class for this.

This is more of a programming issue than an xslt issue so you can
contact me off list if you want to follow up. 


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