Subject: Re: [xsl] & converted to & From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 13:53:16 +0100 |
Hai Hong Ling, > In my XSLT file, I want to convert a code to a description. The > description somehow might contains &, < and > symbols. The > description will display as a plaintext. In my XSL file, I set > > <xsl:when test=" code='13' ">AI & </xsl:when> > <xsl:when test=" code='14' ">£</xsl:when> When the XML parser parses the XSLT stylesheet, it creates a tree that looks like: xsl:when ----- test: code='13' +- "AI & " xsl:when ----- test: code='14' +- "£" As far as XSLT is concerned, there is absolutely no difference between using '&' in your stylesheet and using '&' in your stylesheet -- they are both decoded into the character '&'. When you serialise that as XML, the & character has to be escaped because the & is a significant character in XML (it marks the start of an entity reference or character reference). The built-in escape for the & character is '&', so that's the one that most processors use to serialise & characters. If you're generating plain text rather than XML, then you should set the output method to text using the xsl:output element: <xsl:output method="text" /> That way the processor won't do any escaping (there are no special characters in plain text), and you'll get the characters '&' and '£' in your output. If you want to generate XML, but have more control over how the result tree is serialised, then put the result of the transforming into a DOM and write your own processor to serialise that DOM as an XML document. By the way, the reason that your browser is displaying '&' and '£', as it should, is that it knows that the entity reference '&' means the character '&', so that's what it displays. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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