RE: [xsl] copyright symbol in XSLT

["Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>]

> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Stuart Zakon
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:41 AM
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] copyright symbol in XSLT
>
>
> I have resolved this by using <xsl:text>, which allows the
> XSLT processor to just move the copyright symbol into the
> output HTML with the ampersand:
>
> <p>Copyright <sup>
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&amp;#169;</xsl:text>
> </sup> 2002 Company, Inc.</p>
>
> Is this the best approach?

No, it's the wrong approach.

> This type of maneuver is so complicated, how do junior people
> master these quirks??

By just typing

	"&#169;"

and making sure that the XSLT transformation is generating a properly
encoded document.

Your problem doesn't sit in the XSLT code -- it's in the code that invokes
it. With your "solution", you are just hiding a bug through a non-portable
workaround.




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