Re: how to include an ampersand in an html href using xt and xsl?

[Eric van der Vlist <vdv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ooops, sorry,

It's producing "<a href="foo&amp;bar">xxx</a>" !

Sorry

Eric

Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> ---------------
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <a>
>  <xsl:attribute name="href">foo&amp;bar</xsl:attribute>
> </a>
> </xsl:template>
> ---------------
> 
> Is just working fine (tested against XT) !
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Eric
> 
> John Sidlo wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to generate an href like...
> >
> > <a href="foo&bar">xxx</a>
> >
> > using xsl similar to...
> >
> > <a>
> >  <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:text
> > disable-output-escaping="yes">foo&bar</xsl:text>
> >  </xsl:attribute>
> > </a>
> >
> > and a variety of permutations on this theme.
> >
> > Section 16.4 of XSLT "Disabling Output Escaping" seems to say that
> > putting ampersands in attributes is flat-out illegal!  ("Thus, it is an
> > error to disable output escaping for an ... xsl:text element that is
> > used ot generate the string-value of a ... attribute node")
> >
> > But & is a common character in href's.
> >
> > I must be missing something somewhere.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> >  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> 
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