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Thank you guys. It ends up to use <![CDATA[]]> to make javascript work. very strange...It works in CSS, too. // those two are produced the same results. =) <!-- load the css file --> <xsl:processing-instruction name="xml-stylesheet"> <xsl:text>href="menu.css" type="text/css"</xsl:text> </xsl:processing-instruction> <!-- load the css file --> <style type="text/css"> <![CDATA[ .link { ... } ]]> </style> --Zoe > XSLT is XML, and all XML needs to escape certain characters. According > to the XML specification > (http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#syntax), section 2.6, > Character Data and Markup: > > The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) may appear in > their literal form only when used as markup delimiters, or within a > comment, a processing instruction, or a CDATA section. If they are > needed elsewhere, they must be escaped using either numeric character > references or the strings "& amp ;" and "& lt ;" respectively. > > [NOTE: omit the space characters in the quotes - I've added those so > that some email programs don't thing they are HTML and render them as > characters!] > > The reason for this is that ampersand and left angle bracket have > special meaning to XML: they indicate escaped characters and the start > of XML tags, respectively. Know your XML. > > So if you've only got a few occurrences of these characters, you can use > the & amp ; and & lt ; symbols, or you can place the contents of the > text block in a CDATA section, such as this: > > <xsl:text> > <![CDATA[My funky text that uses < and & all the time...]]> > </xsl:text> > > Cheers, > Stuart > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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