Re: How should I output "<", "&" ?

[Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Kenneth Li]
> <xsl:for-each select="LMP/STOCKQUOTERS">
> <COL>
> <VAR NAME="DEST"
> VALUE="GetQuoteDetail.puml?FUNCTION=GetQuoteDetail&STOCK=MSFT
> &EXCHANGE=NASDAQ"/>
> </COL>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> The question is:
> 
> When I use James Clark's XT&XP to parse the file, I am told that I
> can not use "<", ">" and "&".

That is correct.

> But following is OK:
> 
> xsl:for-each select="LMP/STOCKQUOTERS">
> <COL>
> &lt;VAR NAME="DEST"
> VALUE="GetQuoteDetail.puml?FUNCTION=GetQuoteDetail&amp;STOCK=MSFT
> &EXCHANGE=NASDAQ"/&gt;
> </COL>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> But I really want to use the first one.

Why?  Do you have an entity called STOCK or EXCHANGE?  If not, then
that's *not* what you want to use.  It's not a matter of opinion;
&STOCK is an SGML reference to the entity STOCK (it's not even legal
XML if the entity exists, because it would need a semicolon).

HTML browsers' acceptance of the first form is a bug, not a feature,
and the use of ampersands to separate query parameters has been
deprecated since before HTML 2.0 for precisely this reason.

-Chris
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