RE: [xsl] Problems with &/& in style sheet

Subject: RE: [xsl] Problems with &/& in style sheet
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:01:22 +0100
> The '&amp;' in the last line should actually be a '&' in the 
> transformed
> HTML code. However, obviously I can't replace '&amp;' with 
> '&', since the
> stylesheet would then be syntactically incorrect. But if I 
> leave the '&amp;'
> where it is, I'll have '&amp;' in the HTML code instead of '&'.

Your XSLT processor knows the HTML rules better than you do. 

&amp; is correct according to the HTML spec, & is wrong.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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