RE: 'Problems getting '&' output instead of '&'.

> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Brown
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 8:58 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  'Problems getting '&' output instead of '&'.
>
>
> ...
>
> Your sample XML indicates that you're using script attributes like
> onClick. An XSLT processor, when serializing the result tree with the
> html output method, should be leaving script attributes and elements
> unescaped. Is it possible that your XSLT processor is not doing this?
> This should be easy enough to verify.

Interesting... Can you provide a pointer to the section in the XSLT spec
where this is required?

All I can see [1] is:

"...The html output method should not perform escaping for the content of
the script and style elements..."

> Also, a don't think a bare URL is a valid onClick value. I think you
> need to put it inside a function call.
>
> > p.s. Those with the "disable-output-escaping" chip on their shoulder
> > leave the sermonizing behind.  I'm doing real work in the real word
> > (e.g. in much less than ideal circumstances).
>
> God, the irony. It is exactly those less-than-ideal circumstances (e.g.,
> the fact that d-o-e only works in certain situations) that make
> d-o-e a less-than-practical solution, as you have just discovered.

Yep.

Julian


[1] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-HTML-Output-Method>

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