Re: [xsl] converting XML to XML problem

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Abhi,

It's not whitespace inside the &_amp; entity, it's the whitespace between 
the output ampersand (an actual ampersand, when you have disabled output 
escaping) and the string that is to be the name of your newly constructed 
entity reference, that will be a problem.

Look at the code of your post this morning and you'll see that there is 
whitespace that will appear *after* your ampersand but *before* the value 
of the attribute representing the entity name:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
  &_amp;
</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="@entity-name"/>

... the whitespace after the &_amp; and before the close </xsl:text> tag is 
what will get you.

Really all you have to do is to run the code you sent to the list this a.m. 
(which was much like above) exactly as given, and then try to parse the 
result. (This kind of fragility is one of several reasons why we frown on 
d-o-e-based approaches except as a last resort.)

Cheers,
Wendell

At 04:32 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote:
> Hi Wendell,
> Yes now I get what you were saying. But the white
> space is before
> "&amp;" and not as "&   amp;" so I do not see any
> reason why
>
> <xsl:text> &amp;</xsl:text> should not work the same
> way as
> <xsl:text>&amp;</xsl:text>.
> The only thing that may happen is that there will be
> an extra space in the output xml if I am correct.
> Help me understand if you think I did not catch what
> you are trying to say.
> Thanks,
> Abhi


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