RE: 'Problems getting '&' output instead of '&'.

Edward,

is there any particular reason why you can't use a plain href attribute
instead of onclick (if this makes a difference to the user agent)?

As Mike Brown pointed out, the value of the onClick attribute is a script,
not a URI reference.

Julian

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Edward L.
> Knoll
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:53 PM
> To: XSL Post
> Subject:  'Problems getting '&' output instead of '&amp;'.
>
>
> I have a XSL stylesheet which is generating HTML targeted at a old
> server which apparently does not recognize '&amp;', because we're having
> problems getting  parameters passes to a servlet and the only thing
> we've been able to come up with seems to be that we have '&amp;' in the
> URL instead of '&'.  I've been though several of the old threads related
> to disable-output-escaping and issues with ampersand and have yet to
> find something that works.
>
> I suspect my initial problem is that I have variables which represent
> common content which is output multiple times during processing.  Part
> of this common content are these URLs.  Given what I've read, the reason
> I'm not successful in the 'disable-output-escaping' is because the
> variable represents a results-tree-fragment and the
> disable-output-escaping won't work unless I was "serializing to
> output".  If someone could confirm this I'd appreciate it.
>
> It's my second problem which is really bothering me.  We were doing our
> XML to HTML transformation in two passes: XML to XHTML, then XHTML to
> HTML (now being merged into a single pass for performance reasons).  The
> second pass transformation was a very simple transformation to remove
> the "html:" namespace prefixes from the tags and to have the XSLT
> processor output HTML instead of XML.  I modified the templates in this
> second stage transformation to disable-output-escaping when I output
> element attributes.  I would have thought this would cause the '&amp;'
> terms from the input XHTML to be transformed to '&' in the output HTML;
> it's not happening and I'm hoping someone can give me an explanation
> why.  I need a more complete understanding of when
> disable-output-escaping works and when it doesn't.  Note that I know the
> XSLT processor I'm using (Xalan C++ 1.4) "works", because I have another
> stylesheet which uses it successfully.
>
> Thanks,
> Ed Knoll
>
> p.s. Those with the "disable-output-escaping" chip on their shoulder
> leave the sermonizing behind.  I'm doing real work in the real word
> (e.g. in much less than ideal circumstances).
>
>
> ----- XHTML to HTML style sheet
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>    <xsl:apply-templates />
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="html:*">
>    <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
>       <xsl:for-each select="@*">
>          <xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}">
>             <xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes" />
>          </xsl:attribute>
>       </xsl:for-each>
>       <xsl:apply-templates />
>    </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="comment()">
>    <xsl:comment><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:comment>
>    <xsl:value-of select="$LineBreak" />
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template match="*|@*|text()">
>    <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:apply-templates />
>    </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> ------ An (edited) sample input example.
>
> <html:table>
>    <html:tr>
>       <html:td><html:a target="newwin"
> onclick="HTTP://GNSLLOC.PROD.FEDEX.COM/servlet/GNSL.xmlScriptProce
> ssor?actionValue=EMAIL&amp;pageNum=1&amp;sequenceID=5075890"></htm
> l:a></html:td>
>       <html:td><html:a
> href="HTTP://GNSLLOC.PROD.FEDEX.COM/servlet/GNSL.xmlScriptProcesso
> r?actionValue=DOWNLOAD&amp;sequenceID=5075890"></html:a></html:td>
>    </html:tr>
> </html:table>
>
>
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