SV: XSL, Escaping, undocumented?

Hi.
I found out that, when assigning a value to a variable, from the document
function, and the value is not enclosed in tags (<value>11:34</value>), the
variable will be empty.

The question is now, whether it's possible to retrieve the value, when it's
not enclosed in tags.

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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Pa vegne af Michael Kay
Sendt: 15. juni 2003 22:22
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Emne: RE:  XSL, Escaping, undocumented?


> XSL will try to retrieve a value from the URL:
> www.time.gov/time.asp?state=la&amp;applysummertime=no
>  - which, of course, is invalid to ASP. ASP is not supposed
> to convert the URL. The browser is the only device that
> converts content, that is, XML, HTML etc.
>
> The question is, more directly: How do I put a & in an URL,
> that I can pass to the document() function.

When you write &amp; in the URL in your stylesheet, it is converted by
the XML parser to "&", so the URL that is passed to the document
function is indeed

 www.time.gov/time.asp?state=la&applysummertime=no

I can't see why this isn't working.

Michael Kay


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