Re: [xsl] disable-output-escaping

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Michael,

Unfortunately what you're getting is a parser error, which is as it should 
be since your file is not well-formed XML. This is a funny way of saying 
it's not XML because it doesn't follow the XML rules.

An '&' character simply can't appear in XML except as an open delimiter for 
an entity (or character) reference. Your error is telling you this by 
saying that whitespace is not allowed after the &, since it wants to see a 
name (for the entity or character reference) but sees a space instead.

If you fix whatever process is generating your pseudo-XML so that this 
character is represented as &, you'll be fine. Or you can wrap the 
entire string in a CDATA marked section (another way of doing the same thing).

But no amount of fussing with the XSL will get around this problem since 
the process breaks before the XSL processor ever gets to see the data.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 10:38 AM 7/1/2002, you wrote:

> I have elements in my XML document that could contain character entities but
> should be treated as text...
>
>         <Comments>Comments about loss description:  Adding some comments
> here & testing the section </Comments>
>
>
> Ive tried using combinations of  <xsl:output method= "text">, and the
> <xsl:value-of select="Comments" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>, but Im
> using them incorrectly.  I am getting this error:
>
> Whitespace is not allowed at this location. Error processing resource
> 'file:///C:/APA/XSLT/Auto Report Project/FNOLReport8.xml'. Line 18, Position
> 75
>    <Comments>Comments about loss description:  Adding some comments here &
> testing the section</Comments>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------^
>
>
> How do I set this up so <Comments> sections display text and instruct the
> XML parser to bypass processing these characters?  The output is HTML.
>
> Mike
>
>
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