[xsl] Escaping curly braces in an attribute

["Martinez, Brian" <brian.martinez@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What do you do when you need to use curly braces and *don't* want the
processor to treat them as an attribute value template?

Consider:

<a href="#" onclick="if (foo == false) {bar = true; alert('ding');} return
false">Don't click me</a>

If foo == false, the browser should execute the next two statements.  But
the XSLT processor (rightly) sees this as an AVT and attempts to evaluate it
as an expression, with predictably dire results.

A workaround is to write the onclick handler with xsl:attribute:

<xsl:attribute name="onclick">if (foo == false) {bar = true; alert('ding');}
return false</xsl:attribute>

but I wanted to know if there was any way to escape the curly braces
directly in the attribute.

thanks,
b.

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