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RE: Special Characters for Position Sepcific Output.
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Special Characters for Position Sepcific Output.
- From: "Avula, Raj" <RAvula at firstam dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:17:31 -0700
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Thanks for the reply. I am actually generating "text" output
and also I am using xml:output method="text". But the tool,
I am using escapes the special characters, even the ouput
method is text. I tried with Xalan and it worked fine.
Thanks,
Raj
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeni Tennison [SMTP:mail@jenitennison.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 1:29 AM
> To: Avula, Raj
> Cc: 'xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com'
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Special Characters for Position Sepcific Output.
>
> Hi Raj,
>
> William Lam wrote:
> >> Play with
> >>
> >> xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"
> >>
> >> It will output & instead of &
>
> And you wrote:
> > Thanks. It worked perfect
>
> Don't use disable-output-escaping in this situation. You should only
> disable output escaping when you're generating something that is
> not-quite XML. As you describe your problem, you're generating
> something that is not-at-all XML, but rather text. In that case,
> follow Kevin Nardi's advice:
>
> >> If you are outputting straight text, then use <xsl:output
> >> method="text" />, and your "&" should be output as "&" (as I
> >> understand it...I could be wrong), and your problem is solved.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeni
>
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
>
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