Re: [xsl] disable-output-escaping for attributes

[Victor <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tried it with saxon 6.5.3 but it didn't seem to work.
After reading through the docs I found this in the docs for xsl:attribute:

The attribute |disable-output-escaping| is new in XSLT 2.0. If this is 
set to the value "yes", then the attribute value will be output as-is, 
without escaping of special characters. This affects both the normal XML 
escaping (e.g. of ampersand) and the special URL escaping that occurs 
with non-ASCII characters in HTML URL attributes (e.g. href) which 
normally causes a space to be output as %20. Saxon's extension attribute 
|saxon:disable-output-escaping|, which served the same purpose in 
previous Saxon releases, is no longer available.

But I can't get it to work either way.

Victor


Michael Kay wrote:

> You can do this in XSLT 2.0 by using character maps. Assign two special
> characters (for example, #xAB and #x BB) to the role of "<%" and "%>" and
> then define a character map to replace them on serialization.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/  
>
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Victor [mailto:xsl-list@xxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 30 April 2005 16:12
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [xsl] disable-output-escaping for attributes
> >
> > Some weeks ago I began converting some HTML pages which 
> > contain asp tags 
> > to xml to have only the structure without any layout related overhead 
> > (to easy conversion to new layouts via XSL).
> >
> > Some of these asp tags are "text" or could be treated as text nodes. 
> > These are the nodes I tested my xsl templates with.
> > However some of the HTML elements use the result of asp calls 
> > as values 
> > for attributes.
> > After many, many pages of really bad HTML have been manually 
> > converted I 
> > noticed to my horror that these attributes were actually 
> > escaped where I 
> > didn't want them to.
> >
> > After reading a lot of other post I am lost. It seems that no one has 
> > thought about someone needing unescaped text as an attribute 
> > value and 
> > therefore "disable-output-escaping" does not work for attibutes.
> >
> > Does a tool exist which supports a non-compliant mode to get 
> > the things 
> > done? Or is there a workaround?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Victor
> >
> >
> > old HTML:
> > <select name="myValue">
> > <option valu="0" selected="<% is_sel("myValue","0","selected")%>" 
> > >0</option>
> > <option valu="1" selected="<% is_sel("myValue","1","selected")%>" 
> > >1</option>
> > </select>
> >
> > XML:
> > <select name="myValue">
> >    <option valu="0">
> >        <attribute name="selected"><![CDATA[<% 
> > is_sel("myValue","0","selected")%>]]></attribute>
> >        <text>0</text>
> >    </option>
> >    <option valu="1">
> >        <attribute name="selected"><![CDATA[<% 
> > is_sel("myValue","1","selected")%>]]></attribute>
> >        <text>1</text>
> >    </option>
> > </select>
> >
> >
> > XSL:
> > <xsl:template match="attribute">
> >    <xsl:attribute name="{@name}"><xsl:value-of select="." 
> > disable-output-escaping="yes"/></xsl:attribute>
> > </xsl:template>