RE: a special char question

 
I'm not certain what you are _trying_ to get, but double-escaping is
another option . . . though as I read this, I'm not sure if it applies . .
. this is the kind of question Derrida or a deconstructionist would really
dig . . . 

If you wanted "<" to be read in the browser looking like that, you'd
have to double-escape prior to XSLT processing: <

THis would display as "<" in the browser after XSLT processing.  No
disabling of output escaping voodoo needed.

If you think that, in general, if you want to _see_ <, >, ', ", or & -- in
other words, have them in your human-readable text looking like that, you
_would_ disable output escaping.  

jr


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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Selim Cesic wrote:

> 
> <!>I can't see why you're using disable-output-escaping. This is
> <!>for use when
> <!>you want special characters such as "<" in text to be
> <!>interpreted as markup,
> <!>the default action is to treat them as character data, which is what you
> <!>want.
> 
> okay, i've removed disable-output-escaping, result is the same:
> 
> 
> Fri Jun 23 08:40:40 GMT+02:00 2000 <
> Fri Jun 23 08:40:40 GMT+02:00 2000 >
> Fri Jun 23 08:40:40 GMT+02:00 2000 &
> Fri Jun 23 08:40:40 GMT+02:00 2000 <6162
> Fri Jun 23 08:40:40 GMT+02:00 2000 <66
> Fri Jun 23 08:40:40 GMT+02:00 2000 >70
> 
> 
> 
> HTML code (outputed from processor) looks like:
> 
> <TR bgcolor="#008000">
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>Fri Jun 23 11:56:46 GMT+02:00 2000</b></FONT></TD>
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>&lt;</b></FONT></TD>
> </TR>
> <TR bgcolor="#008000">
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>Fri Jun 23 11:56:46 GMT+02:00 2000</b></FONT></TD>
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>&gt;</b></FONT></TD>
> </TR>
> <TR bgcolor="#008000">
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>Fri Jun 23 11:56:46 GMT+02:00 2000</b></FONT></TD>
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>&amp;</b></FONT></TD>
> </TR>
> <TR bgcolor="#008000">
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>Fri Jun 23 11:56:46 GMT+02:00 2000</b></FONT></TD>
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>&lt;6162</b></FONT></TD>
> </TR>
> <TR bgcolor="#008000">
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>Fri Jun 23 11:56:46 GMT+02:00 2000</b></FONT></TD>
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>&lt;66</b></FONT></TD>
> </TR>
> <TR bgcolor="#008000">
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>Fri Jun 23 11:56:46 GMT+02:00 2000</b></FONT></TD>
> 	<TD><FONT SIZE="2"><b>&gt;70</b></FONT></TD>
> </TR>
> 
> 
> so this can't be a browser problem......
> 
> what am i doing wrong?
> 
> thx
> 
> -SeJo
> 
> 
> 
> <!>
> <!>Telling us what your browser shows isn't very useful; it's the generated
> <!>HTML that's interesting. I suspect the generated HTML is "<&>" and the
> <!>browser is trying its best to make sense of it, which it isn't doing very
> <!>successfully. What you want to generate is "&lt;&amp;&gt;"
> <!>
> <!>Mike Kay
> <!>
> <!>
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> <!>
> 
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