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Printing out variables with escaped text.
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- Subject: Printing out variables with escaped text.
- From: Warren Hedley <w dot hedley at auckland dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:22:54 +1200
- Organization: Department of Engineering Science, The University of Auckland
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
I'm having a problem printing out variables that contain text
declared with disable-output-escaping="yes" (and yes, I'm doing
dodgy stuff, trying to create start and end tags where I
shouldn't, before anyone tells me I shouldn't be doing this.)
Consider the following stylesheet - it surprised me that this
didn't work.
--- START
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="bob">
<xsl:text><fake_element_no_escaping>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><fake_element_escaping>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="$bob" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
--- END
The output from both Saxon and Xalan was (actually Saxon didn't bother
escaping the >'s, but that's OK for now.)
<fake_element_no_escaping>
<fake_element_escaping>
So I pulled out the spec and it suggested using <xsl:copy-of> instead of
<xsl:value-of>.
So I tried that and got :
Saxon:
<fake_element_no_escaping>
<fake_element_escaping>
Xalan:
<fake_element_no_escaping>
<fake_element_escaping>
which is what I originally wanted.
It's getting pretty hard to find bugs in Saxon nowadays, so I thought I'd
post this to list instead of straight to Mike, to see if anyone had any
thoughts on what is the correct behaviour here - the spec doesn't appear
to address this issue specifically.
Any comments? Thanks.
--
Warren Hedley
Department of Engineering Science
Auckland University
New Zealand
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