RE: Question About Translate Function

To write the < and > characters in an XML document (such as an XSLT
stylesheet), use &lt; and &gt; 

I haven't even tried to understand why you want to change > into >, however.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: floatingisland@xxxxxxx [mailto:floatingisland@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 November 2005 05:58
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Question About Translate Function
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Using the XSLT translate function, is there a way to change
> < to > and > to >. I have an XML document, saved out
> of Microsoft InfoPath, which changes the XML tags pasted into
> a text box into a text string of (for example) 
> <myXmlElementName>myXmlElementText</myXmlElementName>
> instead of <myXmlElementName>myXmlElementText</myXmlElementName>
> 
> I'm using Apache Cocoon Version 2.0.3.
> This is the translate function that I'm using:
> <xsl:value-of select="translate(//myXmlElementName, '<', '<')" />
> <xsl:value-of select="translate(//myXmlElementName, '>', '>')" />
> 
> This is part of the error message that Cocoon generates:
> 
> The value of attribute "select" must not contain the '<' character.
> org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Exception in creating 
> Transform 
> Handler:
> org.xml.sax.: SAXParseException: The value of attribute "select" must 
> no conatin
> 
> 
> the "<" character.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg