RE: Building html links in xml

> In the example below, I want to show the description for a 
> product as a link.  I have problems with the "<" and ">" and 
> the "&" in the URL. If I don't encode these characters then I 
> get errors, as expected.  However if I encode all of the 
> special characters like they are supposed to be, then my page 
> displays the link as text, not as a link.
> 
> What do I have to do to make the display render as a link and 
> not text.
> 
> I hope that makes sense.

Not really :)

What does your <a> matching template look like?  It should look something like:

<xsl:template match="a">
  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

Posting some xslt here would help


cheers
andrew

> <product page="1" expand="0x00793820" parent="501">  
> <vendor>Grumbacher</vendor>  <description><a 
> href='/olc/drill-down2.w?parent=501&page=1&expand=0x00793820'
> onclick='top.checkClickFlag();'>MAX ArtistsÂ' Oil 
> Colors</a></description>  <subproduct parent="501">
>   <description>37 ml. Tubes</description>
>  </subproduct>
>  <subproduct parent="501">
>   <description>150 ml. Tube</description>
>  </subproduct>
> </product>
> 
> Jackson

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