Subject: RE: [xsl] a quick question re: html entity From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:50:14 +0100 |
...clarifying: Ampersands in HTML attributes MUST be escaped. It's true that most user agents *also* try to support non-escaped ampersands, but that's a *workaround* (some would call it a bug), not a feature to rely on. Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Marco > Guazzone > Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 8:47 AM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [xsl] a quick question re: html entity > > > Hi Terence, > Have you tried to open the resulting page with a browser (if it is an HTML > page)? > If not try it. > In fact I often use: > <a href="/Foobar.html?p1=v1&p2={value-from-node}">...</a> > or > <form > name="frm" method="post" > action="/Foobar.html?p1=v1&p2={value-from-node}> > ... > </form> > and it works! > That is the & inside the attribute is correctly interpreted by > browsers > as "&". > Cheers, > > --------------------------------- > Marco Guazzone > Software Engineer > Kerbero S.r.L. - Gruppo TC > Viale Forlanini, 36 > Garbagnate M.se (MI) > 20024 - Italy > mail: marco.guazzone@xxxxxxxxxxx > www: http://www.kerbero.com > Tel. +39 02 99514.247 > Fax. +39 02 99514.399 > -------------------------------- > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Terence wrote: > > > Marco Guazzone wrote: > > > > >Hi, > > >my advice is to use a numerical entity; so for " " you could just > > >write > > >" ". > > >An alternative, if you prefer to write it in a symbolic way you can: > > >1) add <!ENTITY > declaration in the DTD of your sheet > > >2) you can create a named template like this: > > > <xsl:template name="ent:nbsp"> > > > <xsl:text> </xsl:text> > > >3) AVOID THIS: use xsl:text with > 'disable-output-escaping="yes"' attribute > > > and do this: <xsl:text > > >disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[ ]]></xsl:text> > > > but this way is NOT THE RIGHT ONE. > > > THINK TWICE BEFORE USING disable-output-escaping :)) > > >Hope this helps! > > >Regards, > > > > > The solution and the alternatives you provided were most helpful to say > > the least. Thanks :) > > > > At the moment, I'm trying to output > > > > <form method="post" id="filter" > > action="/sops/sk.php?op=listing&NOCACHE=1&DEBUG=xml" /> > > > > but I always get & due to output escaping. > > > > <form method="post" id="filter" > > action="/sops/sk.php?op=listing&NOCACHE=1&DEBUG=xml" /> > > > > It looks like I have no choice but to disable output escaping in this > > particular instance. > > > > For the above example, I used the following code to produce it... > > <form method="post" id="filter"> > > * *<xsl:attribute > > > name="action"><![CDATA[/sops/sk.php?op=listing&NOCACHE=1&DEBUG=xml > ]]></xsl:attribute> > > > > is there any way to achieve what I want without turning off > output escaping? > > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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