Re: [xsl] Switching off character entity resolution in XSL

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

  I realise there is some way of dealing with this with character
  substitutions before or after using something like sed, but this isn't
  really a great solution,

Great or not, it's what we all do:-)
sed -e "s/&/[[[AMP]]]/g" file.xml > tmp.xml
saxon -o tmp2.xml tmp.xml style.xsl
sed -e "s/[[AMP]]/&/g" tmp2.xml > result.xml

XSLT2 provides a character map functionality which allows characters to
be rewritten back as entity references or anything else.

For XSLT1 a system is _allowed_ to do that but probably won't unless it
has some mechanism of supplying a non standard serialiser. Many of the
java ones do have such an facility I think.

David

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