RE: [xsl] Writing a stylesheet to create a stylesheet, with XSLT in the XML

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> XML Snippet:
> 
> <Sections label="&lt;xsl:value-of 
> select=&quot;/Doc/FirstName&quot;/&gt;"/>
> 
> Okay, let me try again.  The above snippet is in my XML file.

You are right that when the source XML contains XML carefully disguised
as character data, d-o-e is the only way of getting it out as XML. Most
of us would probably argue that your XML file is badly designed, but
perhaps you weren't responsible for it.
 
> 
> BUT, I want the output in the result tree to look EXACTLY like this:
> 
> <xsl:value-of select="/Doc/FirstName"/>
> 
> In other words, the value of the attribute "label" would be 
> directly placed into the result tree without re-escaping the 
> "&quot;", "&lt;" and "&gt;" entities.

d-o-e actually bypasses the result tree and puts things directly in the
serialized output stream.


  Typically you would do 
> that like this:
> 
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><xsl:value-of
> select="@label"/></xsl:text>

You want <xsl:value-of select="@label" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

Michael Kay
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