RE: outputting an ampersand in an attribute

OK trying again....

Just a guess, but perhaps:

<xsl:character-map name="charmap">
  <xsl:output-character string="&amp;amp;" character="&amp;"/>
</xsl:character-map>

?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Sokolov [mailto:sokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:19 PM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE:  outputting an ampersand in an attribute
>
> Just a guess, but perhaps:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tom a [mailto:tasmito@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 5:00 PM
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  outputting an ampersand in an attribute
> >
> > I am generating svg documents and would like to output an element
> > like:
> >
> > <glyph unicode="&#xE003;" horiz-adv-x="833"
> > d="M124,348L124,249L709,249L709,348L124,348 Z"/>
> >
> > I need to generate the value of @unicode programmatically.
> > The difficulty, of course, is outputting the ampersand in @unicode.
> >
> > I started off by trying to disable output escaping:
> >
> > <xsl:variable name="char" as="xs:string">
> >   <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"
> >       select="concat(codepoints-to-string(38), position(), ';')"/>
> >  </xsl:variable>
> > <xsl:attribute name="unicode" select="$char"/>
> >
> > But this came out as &amp;
> > (followed by an integer and ; per the concat())
> >
> > I then tried to use character maps:
> >
> > <xsl:character-map name="charmap">
> >    <xsl:output-character string="&amp;" character="&"/>
> > </xsl:character-map>
> >
> > But the processor refuses to accept the lone ampersand in
> @character.
> > It generates the following message:
> >
> > "The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity
> > reference."
> >
> > But since the entity name is generated at runtime, I have a problem.
> >
> > Any thoughts are greatly appreciated...
> >
> > Tom