Re: [xsl] weird formatting and characters with <xsl:text disable-output-escaping>

[Spencer Tickner <spencertickner@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jay,

Thanks for the advice, I'll dig up my old perl book and give it a shot.

Spencer

On 4/26/05, JBryant@xxxxxxxxx <JBryant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In other words, InDesign doesn't use XML Consequently, you'll be forcing
> XSLT to do odd things in order to get the desired output. I think d-o-e is
> about your only hope for that problem.
>
> I also really have to question XSLT's fitness for the task. I'd be turning
> to Perl about now, personally.
>
> Jay Bryant
> Bryant Communication Services
> (presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)
>
>
> Spencer Tickner <spencertickner@xxxxxxxxx>
> 04/26/2005 03:42 PM
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> Re: [xsl] weird formatting and characters with <xsl:text
> disable-output-escaping>
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> Shoot just realized we can't even do that as InDesign uses mandatory
> nested tags to define paragraph styles, like <this is a tag<this is a
> nested tag>>, so perhaps I will have to look at this all another way??
>
> Spencer
>
> On 4/26/05, Spencer Tickner <spencertickner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi David, Thanks for the response.
> >
> > Yeah, you hit the nail on the head, I think we may end up having to
> > change some of these naming conventions for this to work, se la vie.
> > Anyway, thanks for the response,
> >
> > Spencer
> >
> > On 4/26/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >                 <xsl:result-document href="{$filename}" format="text">
> > >
> > >                 <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
> > >                 &lt;ASCII-WIN&gt;
> > >                 &lt;Version:3.000000&gt;
> > >
> > > why would you want to do that rather than
> > >
> > >                 <xsl:result-document href="{$filename}" format="text">
> > >                 <ASCII-WIN>
> > >                 <Version:3.000000>
> > >
> > > Oh that's why. This element name does not conform to the XML Namespace
> > > Rec, so in practice it won't work with most modern XML tools (and
> won't
> > > work as either input pr output to XSLT or XPath.
> > >
> > > Do you have to have that element name?
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > >
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