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Subject: Re: [xsl] ampersand output
From: Benjamin Franz <snowhare@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:42:22 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Eric Vitiello wrote:

> I've been following the &nbsp; thread, and looked up my question in
> the FAQ, but I've been unable to find an answer.
>
> I've also seen some messages with examples of exactly what I'm trying to do, but they aren't working...
>
[...]

> the problem is the SRC tag.  instead of outputting a & it is outputting &amp;  so the output looks like:
>
> <html>
> 	<body>
> 		<embed src="/default.asp?person=p1&amp;tree=vitiello" width="600" height="300" type="image/svg+xml"/>
> 	</body>
> </html>

That is correct output.

[...]

> any ideas?

Yes. Leave it alone. It is doing the right thing. It _SHOULD_ put an &amp;
in the URL because the web browser will convert it to a single '&' before
it loads the URL. It would be _wrong_ (and would work unpredictably, if at
all) if you succeeded in getting a solitary '&' output there (which would
be syntactically invalid HTML).

-- 
Benjamin Franz

 "Code as if whoever maintains your code is a violent
  psychopath who knows where you live."
                    -- Nancy Lebovitz, the button lady


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