Re: [xsl] need an "&" in my text!!!WORKED!

Subject: Re: [xsl] need an "&" in my text!!!WORKED!
From: Vijay Rao <rao_vij@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
YES IT WORKED!!!
--- "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Vijay Rao]
> 
> > Ya that is true many people gave me answers but
> none
> > of them gave me a solution.My problem still
> persists.
> > I need an & to be displayed as in "Special Terms &
> > Liabilities" on a tab in HTML page.Now when i
> tried
> > putting & the parser for xml did not allow me so i
> put
> > &amp; in my xml but at my xsl when i selected this
> > value i said disable-output escaping ='yes' but it
> > still seems to output &amp; so the text i get is
> like
> > this "Special Terms &amp; Liabilities"
> >
> 
> That's exactly how it's supposed to work.  In HTML,
> you must use &amp; or
> some other escape for the character.  It ***will***
> display as the "&" sign,
> which seems to be what you want.  Example:
> 
> <html>This is an &amp; sign</html>
> 
> Load that into a browser and it will display the "&"
> sign just fine.  It
> will NOT display "&amp;". Of course, if you look at
> the file with a text
> editor you will see "&amp;", but it will display as
> you want.
> 
> In a url within an HTML attribute, you also must use
> &amp;,  as people have
> been telling you.  It will function correctly as the
> target of a hyperlink.
> 
> Tom P
> 
> 
> 
> 
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