RE: Xslt 2.0 disable-output-escaping attributes

Ok if I actually read the spec :) I would have seen:

<xsl:character-map name="style">
  <xsl:output-character character=">" string="&gt;"/>
</xsl:character-map>

Used in conjuction with:

<xsl:output use-character-maps="style"/>

Two things Ive noticed about this:

1.  http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#element-output-character

The spec here uses the example

<xsl:character-map name="jsp">
  <xsl:output-character char="«" string="&lt;%"/>   
  <xsl:output-character char="»" string="%&gt;"/>
  <xsl:output-character char="§" string='"'/>
</xsl:character-map>

Where the @char should be @character.

2.  For some reason, adding the above character map affects the &lt; in my script block.  For example,

 while (a &lt; el.childNodes.length) {

Without the above character map comes out as an entity unchanged, but with the above map it comes out as '<'


This is highlighted in the following example:

Xml
===
<root>
  Hello &lt; &gt; World
</root>

Xslt
===
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output use-character-maps="root"/>

<xsl:character-map name="root">
  <xsl:output-character character=">" string="&gt;"/>
</xsl:character-map>

</xsl:stylesheet> 

Output
===
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  Hello < > World


I would have expected the left angle bracket to still be an entity - is this correct?  

Cheers
andrew 

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