Re: [xsl] not wellformed contents of xsl:template

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

At 03:33 PM 8/6/01, Jean-Baptiste wrote:
> > Is  it  possible to  put  HTML  tags  that  are not  well-formed  into
> > xsl:template?
>
>Yes, by using CDATA sections <![CDATA[</td></tr></table>]]>
>or by escaping < and > to &lt; and &gt; in a xsl:text statement
><xsl:text>&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;</xsl:text>


Ugh! what Jean-Baptiste left out is that if you're doing this, there are 
way better tools than XSLT. This approach has terrible shortcomings and 
takes advantage of none of XSLT's strengths. It's like saying you want to 
make a wooden pedestal, putting your block on your lathe, and then pulling 
out your whittling knife.

An XSLT approach would work by looking at the problem a completely 
different way. Lisa should step back up the tree one level (or more) so she 
doesn't need to split her table in half.

This is covered in the FAQ! (Lisa, please ask again if research into the 
question -- in the FAQ, and in Mike Kay's book or other manuals -- does not 
illuminate why other solutions to your problem are better than trying to 
split your table in two.)

Cheers,
Wendell


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