Subject: Re: Urgent !!! '&' being replaced by '&'
From: Mahesh Nanavate <mahesh.nanavate@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 7 Aug 2000 02:39:22 -0700
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The code snippet I posted was a right one.
I indeed need the ' . It's part of the title attribute of
the card element from WML 1.1.
Can u please suggest me some work around , so that I get ' in the title attribute?
Thanks,
Mahesh.
On Sun, 06 August 2000, Mike Brown wrote:
>
> Mahesh Nanavate wrote:
> > I am facing a problem.The "&" in the 'headline' element value of "'"
> > is being replaced by &.
>
> The code snippet you posted didn't seem to be the right one.
>
> Also note that all parsed general entity references in your original XML
> and in your stylesheet are resolved during the parsing stage, before the
> trees represented by those documents are exposed to the XSLT processor.
> Any markup characters (& < > ' ") that survive parsing and make it into
> the result tree are going to be non-markup character data that will be
> serialized as entity references appropriately upon output.
>
> You should step back and answer this question first:
> Why do you feel you need ' in the output?
>
> The XSLT processor should be smart enough to know when it ' is really
> necessary. The only time it is necessary is when instances of "'" occur in
> the value of an attribute that is going to be serialized with "'" as the
> delimiter -- otherwise one wouldn't know where the attribute value ends.
>
> Example:
>
> <foo title='Isn't that special?'>
>
> - Mike
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