Re: Ampersand problem

Not sure exactly how to implement this, but &#26 is the & (I think, this is
the ascii number anyway) just use that where you absolutely need to insert a
single & in the output.

Cheers

Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Piers Kittel" <work@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 1:37 PM
Subject:  Ampersand problem


> Hello all
>
> Am having slight problems with the Ampersand problem.  I do know "&"
shouldn't
> be used, and "&amp;" should be used instead, as I read in an message dated
31st
> Jan 2001 ( http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-
> list/archives/200101/msg01502.html ) but I've got a small problem with
> Quicktime and the "&amp;" thing.
>
> What I'm trying to do is to embed a Quicktime movie in an HTML page, and
> Quicktime uses SMIL to display the video and links that comes up at
certain
> times.  The links goes to other Quicktime movies.  The links has to have
URL's
> with &'s in them.  Not a serious problem in itself, IE is fine with that.
But
> when a link is clicked in Quicktime, it loads up the new SMIL file from
the
> server.  Which is just fine.
>
> The thing is that I'm using XSLT to create the HTML and SMIL files to
contain
> the correct clips, and the parser I use (Xalan) outputs "&" as "&amp;" but
when
> Quicktime tries to parse the URL, it chokes and crashes.  It *has* to have
"&"
> in the URL - "&amp;" will not work.
>
> So how do I make Xalan output a pure "&" in the SMIL file?
>
> Thanks very much in advance for your help
>
> Cheers - Piers
>
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