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Re: CData escaping
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:54:04 -0500
- Subject: Re: [xsl] CData escaping
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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 < and > 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.
>
>
>
>
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