Re: [xsl] Special Characters for Position Sepcific Output.

["Kevin Nardi" <kevnardi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are outputting straight text, then use <xsl:output method="text" />, 
and your "&amp;" should be output as "&" (as I understand it...I could be 
wrong), and your problem is solved.

If you want XML, then what you're getting is what you want.  The "&amp;" 
will be converted to "&" whenever it's run through an XML parser, and it 
will only be 1 character long.

Hope that helps.

-Kevin

> From: "Avula, Raj" <RAvula@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: "'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [xsl] Special Characters for Position Sepcific Output.
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:15:04 -0700
>
>
> 	Hi,
> 		I am writing XSL to generate Text Report which is position
> specific.
> 	That is each attribute/element has to occupy certain no. of
> characters
> 	(eg: Customer ID should occupy 1-10 characters, and firstname 11-35
> etc.
> 	If the input is less than the specified charactes, I am appending
> the spaces.)
>
> 	Sample XML:
> <customer id="100">
> 	<name>
> 		<firstname>Steve</firstname>
> 	</name>
> </customer>
>
> 	I am using follwoing command to print the first name that should
> occupy 25 characters.
> 		<xsl:variable name="twentyfive_spaces" select="'
> '" />
> 		<xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
> 		<xsl:value-of select="substring(concat(name/firstname,
> $twentyfive_spaces), 1, 25)" />
> 		<xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
>
> 	But the problem is if there are any special characters in the input,
> then the ouput is
> 	exceeding 25 characters.
>
> Sample ouput in normal case is
> *Steve                    *
>
> In case of input like <firstname>St&amp;eve</firstname>, output will be
> *St&amp;eve                   *
> 	which exceeds 25 characters.
>
> Please let me know, how can I handle this condition in XSL.
>
>
> Regards,
> Raj
>
>
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