Subject: Re: [xsl] Issue with entities in XML document From: "Ramkumar Menon" <ramkumar.menon@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:18:42 -0700 |
I guess I have meserably failed to explain the problem clearly. here is the actual snippet that illustrates the problem. source of xformation ----------------------- <input> .... <description>Hansel & Gretel</description> ... </input> XSLT ------- <xsl:template match="/"> ..... ..... <outputXMLString><xsl:value-of select="xp:getxml-as-string(/input)"/></outputXMLString> Output ----------- <outputXMLString><input><description>Hansel &amp; Gretel</description></input> regards, ram On 8/3/07, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > presumably your extension function is _serialising_ the xml content as > a string containg XML markup, which you don't want. you just want it to > return a string. > > > > > <description>Hansel & Gretel</description> > > so the content of that element is a string of length 15 > "Hansel & Gretel" > > If you need to write that string to an _XML_ document/file/stream then > you need to write out the & as &, and that's what presumably > the strringwriter is doing. > > but you are not writing to a linearised XMl document you are calling an > XPath extension function and writing the string straight back into an > XPath value, so the value of the element you create is > "Hansel & Gretel" > and when the element is serialised as the result of the XSLT > transformation, you get > "Hansel &amp; Gretel" > > So I suspect that the problem is with your extension function returning > XML markup rather than just a string (if it just returns a single > element value) or an in-memory tree of some sort (if it is constructing > an element tree). > > Of course details of how extension functions work and how java trees map > to XPath trees depend on the processor you are using. > > David > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England > and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: > Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. > > This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is > powered by MessageLabs. > ________________________________________________________________________ > > -- Shift to the left, shift to the right! Pop up, push down, byte, byte, byte! -Ramkumar Menon A typical Macroprocessor
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