Re: Newbie questions

[Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> I need to output a " but if I write any of those I get "
> instead:
> 
> what is the solution ?

There isn't one in XSL.  XSL is designed for transformation into XML,
and in XML, " and " are exactly identical.  The only reason it
could matter for you is if you're trying to produce something other
than XML, in which case, you should take the output of your XSL
processor and run it through some normalizer which dereferences your
entities.

> Also, what is the difference between:
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>    <xml:text>Some text</xml:text>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> and
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>    Some text
> </xsl:template>

In this case, there is no difference.  XSL processors may ignore
whitespace unless that behavior is overridden.  So the whitespace
around "Some text" in the latter example is ignored, leaving a result
identical to the former example.  However, if you'd placed a new line
*inside* the <xml:text> element, you would see a difference.

-Chris
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