Re: [xsl] disable-output-escaping for attributes

[Victor <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:

> Sorry, the documentation is out of date. disable-output-escaping was added
> to xsl:attribute in a draft of XSLT 2.0 but was subsequently removed. It's
> no longer supported in Saxon, and neither is the Saxon extension
> saxon:disable-output-escaping. In Saxon 8.x, use character maps.
>
>  
Do you remember which version supported the now removed feature. I would 
prefer to use the "deprecated" version instead of rewriting all over.
BTW why has it been removed (from the draft) ?

Victor

>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Victor [mailto:xsl-list@xxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 31 May 2005 22:09
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [xsl] disable-output-escaping for attributes
> >
> > I tried it with saxon 6.5.3 but it didn't seem to work.
> > After reading through the docs I found this in the docs for 
> > xsl:attribute:
> >
> > The attribute |disable-output-escaping| is new in XSLT 2.0. 
> > If this is 
> > set to the value "yes", then the attribute value will be 
> > output as-is, 
> > without escaping of special characters. This affects both the 
> > normal XML 
> > escaping (e.g. of ampersand) and the special URL escaping that occurs 
> > with non-ASCII characters in HTML URL attributes (e.g. href) which 
> > normally causes a space to be output as %20. Saxon's 
> > extension attribute 
> > |saxon:disable-output-escaping|, which served the same purpose in 
> > previous Saxon releases, is no longer available.
> >
> > But I can't get it to work either way.
> >
> > Victor
> >
> >
> > Michael Kay wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > You can do this in XSLT 2.0 by using character maps. Assign 
> > >      
> > two special
> >    
> >
> > > characters (for example, #xAB and #x BB) to the role of "<%" 
> > >      
> > and "%>" and
> >    
> >
> > > then define a character map to replace them on serialization.
> > >
> > > Michael Kay
> > > http://www.saxonica.com/  
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Victor [mailto:xsl-list@xxxxxxxxx] 
> > > > Sent: 30 April 2005 16:12
> > > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: [xsl] disable-output-escaping for attributes
> > > >
> > > > Some weeks ago I began converting some HTML pages which 
> > > > contain asp tags 
> > > > to xml to have only the structure without any layout 
> > > >        
> > related overhead 
> >    
> >
> > > > (to easy conversion to new layouts via XSL).
> > > >
> > > > Some of these asp tags are "text" or could be treated as 
> > > >        
> > text nodes. 
> >    
> >
> > > > These are the nodes I tested my xsl templates with.
> > > > However some of the HTML elements use the result of asp calls 
> > > > as values 
> > > > for attributes.
> > > > After many, many pages of really bad HTML have been manually 
> > > > converted I 
> > > > noticed to my horror that these attributes were actually 
> > > > escaped where I 
> > > > didn't want them to.
> > > >
> > > > After reading a lot of other post I am lost. It seems that 
> > > >        
> > no one has 
> >    
> >
> > > > thought about someone needing unescaped text as an attribute 
> > > > value and 
> > > > therefore "disable-output-escaping" does not work for attibutes.
> > > >
> > > > Does a tool exist which supports a non-compliant mode to get 
> > > > the things 
> > > > done? Or is there a workaround?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Victor
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > old HTML:
> > > > <select name="myValue">
> > > > <option valu="0" selected="<% is_sel("myValue","0","selected")%>" 
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > 0</option>
> > > > >          
> > > > <option valu="1" selected="<% is_sel("myValue","1","selected")%>" 
> > > >        
> > > >
> > > > > 1</option>
> > > > >          
> > > > </select>
> > > >
> > > > XML:
> > > > <select name="myValue">
> > > >   <option valu="0">
> > > >       <attribute name="selected"><![CDATA[<% 
> > > > is_sel("myValue","0","selected")%>]]></attribute>
> > > >       <text>0</text>
> > > >   </option>
> > > >   <option valu="1">
> > > >       <attribute name="selected"><![CDATA[<% 
> > > > is_sel("myValue","1","selected")%>]]></attribute>
> > > >       <text>1</text>
> > > >   </option>
> > > > </select>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > XSL:
> > > > <xsl:template match="attribute">
> > > >   <xsl:attribute name="{@name}"><xsl:value-of select="." 
> > > > disable-output-escaping="yes"/></xsl:attribute>
> > > > </xsl:template>