Re: Problem with Output special char in HTML attribute

Hi Mulp,

> i've a problem with outputting special chars with xsl

To output an unescaped < within an attribute, you have to use
disable-output-escaping with the entire tag, i.e.:

  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
    &lt;a href="#" tabindex="&lt;?=$tabindex++?>">
  </xsl:text>
  ...
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
    &lt;/a>
  </xsl:text>

but I doubt that this is really the best way to solve your problem.

Two other avenues that are worth exploring are (a) generating the
value of the tabindex attribute using XSLT rather than PHP and (b)
using a version of PHP that can live happily within an XML document,
if there is one (e.g. JSP has an XML syntax, so you don't have to use
non-XML-friendly <?...?> syntax all the time).

Cheers,

Jeni

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