Re: [xsl] CData escaping

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Paul,

Before we tell you how to do this, tell us why you want to so we can put on 
our Thought Police uniforms to tell you why it's not a good idea.

Really -- 99 times out of a hundred, this is a very poor solution to a 
common problem that has better solutions. And it's a FAQ.

For example -- let's say your problem is that your input

<one>1</one>
<two>2</two>
<one>3</one>
<two>4</two>
<one>5</one>
<two>6</two>

needs to come back as

<pair>
   <one>1</one>
   <two>2</two>
</pair>
<pair>
   <one>3</one>
   <two>4</two>
</pair>
<pair>
   <one>5</one>
   <two>6</two>
</pair>

A clean, conformant solution is

<xsl:template match="one">
   <pair>
     <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
     <xsl:copy-of select="following-sibling::two[1]"/>
   </pair>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="two"/>

But what you want to do will not work in all XSL implementations, and is 
not required by the spec to be supported by a processor.

Cheers,
Wendell

Cheers,
Wendell

At 12:33 PM 2/6/02, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>  Very simply, I'm trying to do the following:
>
><![CDATA[</i>]]>
>
>but the < and > are being escaped as &lt; and &gt; in the output which is
>not what I want. How do output the symbols themselves? My output method is
>html and I'm using xalan 1.2.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Paul Brady.
>
>
>
>
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list


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