There is a way:

<xsl:template match="text()">
  <xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:template>

But I doubt very much that it is the right design. d-o-e is nearly always
the wrong thing to do, and it certainly seems the wrong thing here. You
don't want to disable escaping of "<" and "&", you want to enable escaping
of quotes and apostrophes, as far as I can see.

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl [mailto:call14@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 13 September 2006 18:10
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Is there a way to utilise 
> disable-output-escaping in apply-templates?
> 
> In my xslt, i use apply-templates instead of value-of select 
> at quite a few places and everything is working fine. 
> Basically, my xslt's html output is been stored into a 
> database something like
> 
> field x = ...<p>contents with quote's & "s too</p>..and some 
> other tags + contents
> 
> different fields store different section of html code and 
> finally another environment assemble them to deliver the final output.
> 
> However, now we realised that storing of the html output 
> fails in some fields when encountering speacial chars like ", 
> ' etc [we still explore why it fails only in few places]. 
> 
> As a quick solution, we want to use 
> disable-output-escaping="no" in xslt, thinking that will make 
> field x = ...<p>contents with quote&#xxx;s & &#xxx;s too</p>..
> [xxx - relevant values] which might allow us to store the 
> data without fail. But the trouble is we cannot use with 
> disable-output-escaping with apply-templates. Is there a way around? 
> 
> Thanks,
> karl
> 
> 
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