RE: xslt replace special characters

From: "Passin, Tom" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE:  xslt replace special characters
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:14:05 -0500

[Alice Fan]

> I was looking into the '&' problem somemore.  What if I used
> CDATA in my XML
> file so when its trying to parse it will ignore those special
> characters.  I
> think this might work.  Any ideas on this possible solution?
>

Just as long as you do not put the PCDATA into an attribute - you cannot
put a CDATA section there.  You can, of course, put it into the content
of an element.  I say this because a  common way to send xml back to a
server is to put it into a hidden input element, and in that case it has
to go as the value of the "value" attribute of the hidden field.

Why not just use Javascript to escape the "&" characters?

Cheers,

Tom P

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