RE: [xsl] XSLT Disable-Output-Escaping Not Working

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don't use disable-output-escaping if you don't understand it. It's a way of
generating invalid XML or HTML for use in the rare occasions where that's
what you need to do. It's doing just that here, which means it IS working,
and isn't what you want.

Michael Kay


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shelli D. Orton [mailto:shelli.orton@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 13 May 2004 16:29
> To: XSL List
> Subject: [xsl] XSLT Disable-Output-Escaping Not Working
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm fairly new to XLST and have come across this problem.  I 
> have a template
> that creates an image element as below:
> 
> <xsl:element name="img">
> 	<xsl:attribute name="src">
> 		<xsl:choose>
> 			<xsl:when test="Content/Title/image">
> 				<xsl:value-of 
> select="Content/Title/image" />
> 			</xsl:when>
> 			<xsl:otherwise>
> 					<xsl:value-of 
> select="$defaultImage"/>
> 			</xsl:otherwise>
> 		</xsl:choose>
> 	</xsl:attribute>
> 	<xsl:attribute name="alt">
> 		<xsl:value-of select="MetaData/title" 
> disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
> 	</xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:element>
> 
> When the value of MetaData/title is "This &amp; That", the 
> &amp; is escaped
> resulting in a title of "This &amp;amp; That" which the 
> browser displays as
> "This &amp; That".  Shouldn't the result be "This &amp; That" 
> which the
> browser displays as "This & That"?  I have used the 
> disable-output-escaping
> attribute in many other places and it has always worked before.
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Shelli