Re: [xsl] Output < and > in the attribute from the style sheet

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Consider using character maps with XSLT 2.0.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 22/04/2012 00:00, Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> Martin,
> thank you. I understand that the '>' doesn't have to be escaped in
> this case, and the final results is valid XML. However,
> I am wondering about a clean way to prevent the serializer from
> escaping it in the attributes.
> Currently, the combination of<xsl:text>  and CDATA, is working fine,
> but it's ugly as I loose syntax highlight, and indentation.
> That is why I am looking for a better a way.
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Martin Honnen<Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>  wrote:
> > Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> > > In on of the sheets I am working on there is the sign ">" in on of the
> > > attributes. I am trying to get this in the resulting XML.
> > > So I have this in my template:
> > >
> > >         <dependencies>
> > >                 <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
> > >                 <![CDATA[
> > >                         <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-api"
> > > rev="1.6.4"
> > > conf="provided->*" />
> > >                         <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-log4j12"
> > > rev="1.6.4"
> > > conf="compile->*" />
> > >                         <dependency org="log4j" name="log4j" rev="1.2.16"
> > > conf="compile->*,!sources,!javadoc">
> > >                         <exclude module="jmxri" />
> > >                         <exclude module="jmxtools" />
> > >                         </dependency>
> > >                         <dependency org="junit" name="junit" rev="4.8"
> > > conf="test->*" />
> > >                         <dependency org="javax.servlet"
> > > name="javax.servlet-api"
> > > rev="3.0.1" conf="provided->*">
> > >                         <artifact name="javax.servlet-api" type="jar" />
> > >                         </dependency>
> > >                         ]]>
> > >                 </xsl:text>
> > >
> > > I am using text and CDATA, as you can see in my style sheet.
> > > Is there a better way to output this without escaping the XML and
> > > generate the indented XML ?
> >
> >
> > Well the '>' sign does not need to be escaped but often is. So I don't see
> > any problem with doing
> >
> >
> >                              <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-api"
> > rev="1.6.4"
> > conf="provided->*" />
> >                              <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-log4j12"
> > rev="1.6.4"
> > conf="compile->*" />
> >                              <dependency org="log4j" name="log4j"
> > rev="1.2.16"
> > conf="compile->*,!sources,!javadoc">
> >                              <exclude module="jmxri" />
> >                              <exclude module="jmxtools" />
> >                              </dependency>
> >                              <dependency org="junit" name="junit" rev="4.8"
> > conf="test->*" />
> >                              <dependency org="javax.servlet"
> > name="javax.servlet-api"
> > rev="3.0.1" conf="provided->*">
> >                              <artifact name="javax.servlet-api" type="jar" />
> >                              </dependency>
> >
> > literally in your stylesheet code, the serializer might later escape the '>'
> > signs '&gt;'.
> >
> > If you want to use less than signs '<' then you need to escape them e.g
> >   <foo att="a&lt; b"/>
> > that is an XML syntax requirement and not specific to XSLT.
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >         Martin Honnen --- MVP Data Platform Development
> >         http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/