RE: "Passing through" special characters

First point: the character references such as 
 are converted to regular
characters by the XML parser. The XSLT processor never gets to see the
character references, so it can't pass them through.

Second point: character references such as 
 are a feature of XML and
HTML, so you can produce them when using the xml and html output methods,
but not when using the text output method. Characters are never escaped with
the text output method, so disabling escaping achieves nothing.

I think you need to use something like (in XPath 2.0) replace('
',
'
')

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David.McKay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:David.McKay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 27 January 2005 15:56
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  "Passing through" special characters
> 
> --- XSL Processor Details
> 
> Vendor: SAXON 6.5.3 from Michael Kay
> Vendor URL: http://saxon.sf.net/
> 
> ---
> 
> I have some xml, the important part of which looks like this:
> 
> <RS422Tx name="RS422Tx1" baud_rate="19200" 
> data_word="ABC&#13;&#10;DEF&#13;&#10;"/>
> 
> I am trying to parse to a text output file. Problem is, I 
> can't figure out a way to generate the following:
> 
> CALCULATE, TX$="ABC&#13;&#10;DEF&#13;&#10;"
> 
> This:
> 
> <xsl:if test="@data_word">CALCULATE, TX$="<xsl:value-of 
> select="@data_word"/>"</xsl:if>
> 
> results in:
> 
> CALCULATE, TX$="ABC
> DEF
> "
> 
> I tried both settings of disable-output-escaping, neither of 
> which seemed to make a difference.
> 
> 
> There may also be a requirement to output as follows:
> 
> CALCULATE, TX$="ABC"+CHR$(13)+CHR$(10)+"DEF"+CHR$(13)+CHR$(10)
> 
> 
> Can anyone offer any hints for either problem?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dave McKay
> 
> 
> 
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