Subject: Re: [xsl] accessing info outside current context From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:43:16 -0400 |
[David Carlisle]> > > I just tried it out and you DO have to escape the ampersand > > but you missed the point of the argument. (Actually the real point was > to protect the honour if a certain Lady) but the claimed technical > argument was one of terminology. > > In XPath the less than operator is < and the test for a variable being > less than three is $x < 3. (Check the XPath grammar to see this) > Now _if_ you put your XPath in an XML file, then like any other text > you have to quote the < hence the XSLT construct: > <xsl:if test=" $x < 3"> > > So Jeni's example was correct as an XPath: it matches a production in > the XPath grammar. But you have to quote & in XML files. So if you were > to write that XPath in an XSLT stylesheet you would have to quote it. > Sure, I know that, but the original question seemed to be about using it in xslt, and I couldn't tell from the posts whether that question was being answered or not. So I decided to be very clear about it. Cheers, Tom P XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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