[xsl] disable-output-escaping for attributes

[Victor <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some weeks ago I began converting some HTML pages which contain asp tags 
to xml to have only the structure without any layout related overhead 
(to easy conversion to new layouts via XSL).

Some of these asp tags are "text" or could be treated as text nodes. 
These are the nodes I tested my xsl templates with.
However some of the HTML elements use the result of asp calls as values 
for attributes.
After many, many pages of really bad HTML have been manually converted I 
noticed to my horror that these attributes were actually escaped where I 
didn't want them to.

After reading a lot of other post I am lost. It seems that no one has 
thought about someone needing unescaped text as an attribute value and 
therefore "disable-output-escaping" does not work for attibutes.

Does a tool exist which supports a non-compliant mode to get the things 
done? Or is there a workaround?

Thanks,
Victor


old HTML:
<select name="myValue">
<option valu="0" selected="<% is_sel("myValue","0","selected")%>" 
>0</option>
<option valu="1" selected="<% is_sel("myValue","1","selected")%>" 
>1</option>
</select>

XML:
<select name="myValue">
   <option valu="0">
       <attribute name="selected"><![CDATA[<% 
is_sel("myValue","0","selected")%>]]></attribute>
       <text>0</text>
   </option>
   <option valu="1">
       <attribute name="selected"><![CDATA[<% 
is_sel("myValue","1","selected")%>]]></attribute>
       <text>1</text>
   </option>
</select>


XSL:
<xsl:template match="attribute">
   <xsl:attribute name="{@name}"><xsl:value-of select="." 
disable-output-escaping="yes"/></xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>