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Re: Retaining '&' after transforming XML to HTML via XSL
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- Subject: Re: Retaining '&' after transforming XML to HTML via XSL
- From: Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:58:41 -0600 (MDT)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> I would like to retain an ampersand ('&') in an HTML stream
I'd call it an almost-HTML stream, then.
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/charset.html
'Authors should use "&" (ASCII decimal 38) instead of "&" to avoid
confusion with the beginning of a character reference (entity reference
open delimiter). Authors should also use "&" in attribute values
since character references are allowed within CDATA attribute values'
> The & is unacceptable as the microbrowser interpreting the
> resultant HTML will not recognize the entity.
This microbrowser does not implement HTML very well at all, then. If it
doesn't purport to support HTML's character set (the full Unicode /
ISO/IEC 10646-1 / UCS), then I would hope it would at least recognize the
SGML entities for the U-00000000 to U-000000FF character range, so that
ISO-8859-1 encoded documents could be handled.
> MSXML parser. The version of the
> parser in use also does not support <xsl:text> or <xsl:copy-of>.
This means disable-output-escaping won't work either, which is what you
would need. It doesn't matter what is in the stylesheet; what matters is
what goes into the result tree. '&' will be in the result tree whether
you use & or & or <![CDATA[&]]>. Serialization of the result tree
via the html output method is what causes the & to be output, and
there's nothing wrong with that.
Sorry to not be of much help, but it sounds like the real problem is your
microbrowser, whatever that may be.
- Mike
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