Re: < in <xsl:eval>

[Keith Visco <kvisco@xxxxxxxxx>]

you can escape the scripting with a CDATA section as well

<xsl:eval><![CDATA[
var i=0;var sString="";for(i=0;i<10;i++){sString += ".";};sString;
]]></xsl:eval>

Chris Maden wrote:
> 
> [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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