[xsl] Weird behavior with attributes and >

["Nesbitt, David" <DNesbitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good People,

I have a follow-up on attributes.

I am trying to use XSLT to create JSPs.  In the JSP, JSP expressions are
often used to provide form element attribute values.  For example:

    <input
        type="hidden"
        name="<%= javaName %>"
        value="<%= javaValue %>">

I need to generate JSP v1.0 (so I can't use the new JSP XML
representations).  Here is what I have tried to do:

<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:variable name="open.expression"><![CDATA[<%= ]]></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="close.expression"><![CDATA[ %>]]></xsl:variable>
. . .
    <input>
        <xsl:attribute name="type">hidden</xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:attribute name="name">
            <xsl:value-of select="$open.expression"
disable-output-escaping="yes"/>javaName<xsl:value-of
select="$close.expression" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:attribute name="value">
            <xsl:value-of select="$open.expression"
disable-output-escaping="yes"/>javaValue<xsl:value-of
select="$close.expression" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
        <xsl:attribute name="value">
    </input>

Unfortunately, the following gets created:

    <input type="hidden" name="<%= javaName %&gt;" value="<%= javaValue
%&gt;">

Is there anyway I can get around the conversion of ">" to "&gt;" within
attributes.  I am confused because I am using the CDATA and
disable-output-escaping trick to get around the conversion.  When I use
the value-of technique outside of attributes, the ">" does not get
converted.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Dave

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