Re: [xsl] Cold Fusion

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:37 PM 3/13/2003, Mike wrote:
> Alright, I guess I can try to help, under the assumption that you're trying
> to generate CFML with XSLT.

[stuff cut about CFML's particular syntax not being XML]

> ...
> This may be a case for the use of disable-output-escaping, where you write
> all your tags as XML character data and then tell the serializer to emit them
> without escaping the markup characters "<" and "&":

...

> but this kludgy "solution" is not guaranteed to work at all (its support is
> optional and relies on the processor serializing the result tree directly).
> See also http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N2215.html

A variation of this approach is to use the "text" output method, in which 
output is escaped by default, and use named templates to generate your CFML 
tags (appropriately parameterized so they can be called from your 
processing templates).

Just a thought, a variation on Mike's theme. Post-processing XML output, as 
Mike also suggested, is another option: it amounts to splitting the problem 
in half and isolating the problematic issue (getting non-XML markup output) 
for a non-XSLT tool to deal with (easy as a regexp-based process may be in 
this case).

Cheers,
Wendell


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