RE: [xsl] Character references and the dreaded d-o-e

["Brian Martinez" <Brian.Martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> (You give the impression you are already doing this, but if you are, then
> XML escaping should never appear in the output)

I thought this too, but I tried it again with output set to text, and sure
enough the escaped characters appeared in output.  Along with, I might add, an
XML document declaration!

I think there is something horribly broken with our implementation--perhaps
whatever is invoking the transformation is overriding the output method.

Thanks,
b.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:17 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Character references and the dreaded d-o-e
>
> Try
>
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
>
> (You give the impression you are already doing this, but if you are, then
> XML escaping should never appear in the output)
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Martinez [mailto:Brian.Martinez@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 14 November 2006 22:10
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [xsl] Character references and the dreaded d-o-e
> >
> > I have what I think is a very simple XSLT 1 question, but I
> > can't recall the best way to solve it.
> >
> > We have the following value in the database: AT&T
> >
> > Which gets serialized as
> >
> > <result_set>
> >   <vendor_name>AT&amp;T</vendor_name>
> > </result_set>
> >
> > My stylesheet is set to output text, and doing
> >
> > <xsl:value-of select="/result_set/vendor_name"/>
> >
> > Returns AT&amp;T
> >
> > Even though I'm producing plain text, the only workaround I'm
> > aware of is to change the output to XML and use d-o-e on the
> > value-of element to get the desired result (AT&T).  But I
> > can't help but think there are unwanted side effects to this,
> > and that there might be a better way (perhaps using string
> > replacement?).  Any other suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > b.
> >
> > Brian Martinez
> > Engineer/Developer
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