Re: Escaping curly braces in an attribute

Well, I'm not sure it's a more elegant solution that just writing out the
attribute element, but you could do this:

<xsl:variable name="leftbrace"><![CDATA[{]]></xsl:variable>

and one for the right side (would you even need one for the right side? --
I'm thinking no but I didn't test it).

And use that value in an atv along with your literal values.

Chuck White
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> What do you do when you need to use curly braces and *don't* want the
> processor to treat them as an attribute value template?
>
> Consider:
>
> <a href="#" onclick="if (foo == false) {bar = true; alert('ding');} return
> false">Don't click me</a>
>
> If foo == false, the browser should execute the next two statements.  But
> the XSLT processor (rightly) sees this as an AVT and attempts to evaluate
it
> as an expression, with predictably dire results.
>
> A workaround is to write the onclick handler with xsl:attribute:
>
> <xsl:attribute name="onclick">if (foo == false) {bar = true;
alert('ding');}
> return false</xsl:attribute>
>
> but I wanted to know if there was any way to escape the curly braces
> directly in the attribute.
>
> thanks,
> b.
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