RE: easy question

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

> I am trying to get output as follows: <IMG/>
> 
It's not an easy question, though it is a FAQ.

You can't generate markup in your output document by pretended it's text.

In this case the output you want is well-formed so "<IMG/> in your
stylesheet will generate either <IMG/> or <IMG></IMG> in your output: if the
output is XML then the two are equivalent so you shouldn't need to care
about the difference. If the output isn't XML, but some other format that
happens to use angle brackets, then XSLT isn't designed to do the job.

SAXON has a back-door mechanism to get round the problem if you need to (as
you do sometimes, e.g. to generate <%...%> in ASP pages): you can write
<xsl:tag>IMG/</xsl:tag>

Mike Kay


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