Re: [xsl] Global disable-output-escaping

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 21:25 27-09-2001, Joshua.Kuswadi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm converting XML with XSL to produce CSV files and the XML documents may 
> contain the string '&amp;' as part of a text node. For example <name>J 
> &amp; G Bloggs</name>.
>
> When the XSL has <xsl:value-of select="name"/>, it returns 'J &amp; G 
> Bloggs', rather than the desired, 'J & G Bloggs'.

No, it returns "J & G Bloggs".  Serializing the output as XML causes the 
bytes "J &amp; G Bloggs" to be written to the file, which is correct.

> Is there anyway to get our desired result without having to change all the 
> <xsl:value-of> elements in all our CSV stylesheets to include the 
> disable-output-escaping="yes" attribute?

If you don't want XML output (and CSV is not XML), try requesting something 
other than XML output.  For instance, try using

<xsl:output method="text"/>

HTH,
Chris
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