RE: href with & ?

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:05 PM
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> Subject: Re:  href with & ?
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> On Tuesday 17 September 2002 13:39, Holmberg Rick-ra0119 wrote:
> > I was thinking that somehow because it was a part of the href, that it
> > needed to be & instead of & to show up correctly.
>
> You are right that it should be "&" in HTML, but the XSLT page is

No, he isn't. It's "&" *both* in HTML and XML.

> in XML.  It
> is only translated to HTML by the XSLT engine's serializer, when
> you specify
> an <xsl:output method="html"/> tag.  The engine doesn't copy the text
> literally; it first parses the XSLT page using a normal XML
> parser, and then
> serializes the parsed text according to the output method and encoding.

Correct.

But note that it would be a *bug* if the XSLT engine serialized the
ampersand just as "&" in HTML attributes.

Julian

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