Subject: Re: [xsl] Ampersand problem From: "Simon Kelly" <kelly@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:42:00 +0100 |
Not sure exactly how to implement this, but  is the & (I think, this is the ascii number anyway) just use that where you absolutely need to insert a single & in the output. Cheers Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Piers Kittel" <work@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 1:37 PM Subject: [xsl] Ampersand problem > Hello all > > Am having slight problems with the Ampersand problem. I do know "&" shouldn't > be used, and "&" should be used instead, as I read in an message dated 31st > Jan 2001 ( http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl- > list/archives/200101/msg01502.html ) but I've got a small problem with > Quicktime and the "&" thing. > > What I'm trying to do is to embed a Quicktime movie in an HTML page, and > Quicktime uses SMIL to display the video and links that comes up at certain > times. The links goes to other Quicktime movies. The links has to have URL's > with &'s in them. Not a serious problem in itself, IE is fine with that. But > when a link is clicked in Quicktime, it loads up the new SMIL file from the > server. Which is just fine. > > The thing is that I'm using XSLT to create the HTML and SMIL files to contain > the correct clips, and the parser I use (Xalan) outputs "&" as "&" but when > Quicktime tries to parse the URL, it chokes and crashes. It *has* to have "&" > in the URL - "&" will not work. > > So how do I make Xalan output a pure "&" in the SMIL file? > > Thanks very much in advance for your help > > Cheers - Piers > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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