RE: [xsl] Ampersand in attributes

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Do you know if I can use that property in <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>??

saxon:disable-output-escaping - no. You have to replace it with

for each @*
  attribute {name()} {.}

character-maps - yes. These apply to all serialized output, however
generated.

Michael Kay


>
> Regards,
>
>
> Nistor Boscan
>
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Enviado el: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:58 AM
> Para: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: RE: [xsl] Ampersand in attributes
>
> > Ken thanks for your quick answer
> >
> > In my case I have a Kyocera running an Eudora browser that does not
> > work well with the amperson and I need to generate "&" instead of
> > "&amp".
> >
>
> There are ways of generating invalid HTML if you really need
> to, which it
> seems you do.
>
> In Saxon 6.x there is an extension saxon:disable-output-escaping on
> xsl:attribute
>
> In Saxon 8.x you can use character maps: assign some private
> use character
> to the meaning "unescaped ampersand", and map it to an
> ampersand as the
> output string.
>
> Please also raise a bug report with the supplier of this
> broken browser.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/