Re: < in <xsl:eval>

[Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[alan dennis]
> How can you test for < in an eval statement, in IE5?  For instance
> the following works:
> 
> <xsl:eval>var i=0;var sString="";for(i=0;10>i;i++){sString += ".";} 
> ;sString;</xsl:eval>
> 
> however
> 
> <xsl:eval>var i=0;var sString="";for(i=0;i<10;i++){sString += ".";}
> ;sString;</xsl:eval>
> 
> (which is of the more common form) does not.

Your XSL stylesheet is an XML document, and subject to all the
strictures thereof.  You must encode < as &lt;, or else it is not a
legal XML document.  The XML parser will interpret the entity
reference before passing the data to the stylesheet engine, so the
comparison should evaluate correctly.

-Chris
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