Re: [xsl] XSL, Escaping, undocumented?

[Oleg Tkachenko <olegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FireNet - Information wrote:

> I want this functionality in XSL:
> <xsl:variable name="time"
> select="document('www.time.gov/time.asp?state=la&applysummertime=no')"/>
>
> The above ASP will return an XML document that will contain the time in the
> specified state.
> My problem is that the MSXML XSL transformation handles the "&" character as
> an illegal character.
> If I write "&amp;", it doesn't convert it to the actual amp character, which
> means that the ASP script reads the state variable like
> "la&amp;applysummertime=no"..

Then there is something wrong with the ASP script or IIS, because using &amp; 
is the only valid way both in XML and HTML.

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Oleg Tkachenko
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Multiconn Technologies, Israel


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