Re: xslt replace special characters

Alice Fan wrote:
> ok.  one last question... the search and replace works now.  but when i pass 
> in a '&' character to the xsl it totally dies.  i'm using xalan as my 
> processor.  is there a wy in xslt to catch this and convert it to & 
> before it tries to parse it?

No. The XSLT processor relies on an XML parser for its input, and the parser
will reject a malformed document because those are the rules of XML
processing. You must provide well-formed input to the parser if you want it to
pass the important parts of the document to the next application in the chain.

   - Mike
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