HTML characters being converted

[David Lamy <DLamy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all--

I'm using my XSL stylesheet to create HTML.. one of the "challenges"
I've run into are situations where I need to conditionally output only
half of a tag group (i.e. <tr> but not </tr>) in an XSL block.. if I
only put in half of the group, the stylesheet ceases to be well-formed,
and I get angry messages from both my XML writer and the XSL processor.

So, I thought I would perform the condition processing and subsequent
output in a Java class so that the XSL processor would not complain
about well-formedness.. good idea, and the code runs, but in the
resultant HTML, the "<" in the "<tr>" tag mysteriously becomes a "&lt;"!
The ">" doesn't get converted, however.  But, this is enough to screw up
the HTML, since the "&lt;tr>" tag is rendered in the browser rather than
being identified as an HTML tag.

Does anyone have any ideas on this problem(s)?  I'm open both to
solutions for the well-formedness issue as well as the character
conversion issue.

Details on the scenario follow:

The XML is generated by a screen designer that allows a user to
graphically define a screen.  One of the graphical components is a
CheckBox group.  An attribute of the CheckBoxGroup is the number of
columns in the group.  The subelements are the checkboxes themselves.  I
need to render these checkboxes as a group according to the number of
columns.. so I'm creating an HTML table, with each <tr> being composed
of as many <td>s as the number of columns.. so you see my need for
conditional outputting of <tr> and </tr> tags.. I'm keeping a counter of
how many <td>s I've outputted for a <tr> and conditionally I want to
spit out a </tr> if the counter has reached the number of columns value.

Thanks in advance for your help!! 

Dave Lamy
MarketVision, Inc.
dlamy@xxxxxxxxxxx


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