Re: xslt replace special characters

From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re:  xslt replace special characters
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 17:31:23 -0700 (MST)

Alice Fan wrote:
> ok. one last question... the search and replace works now. but when i pass
> in a '&' character to the xsl it totally dies. i'm using xalan as my
> processor. is there a wy in xslt to catch this and convert it to &
> before it tries to parse it?

No. The XSLT processor relies on an XML parser for its input, and the parser
will reject a malformed document because those are the rules of XML
processing. You must provide well-formed input to the parser if you want it to
pass the important parts of the document to the next application in the chain.

   - Mike
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