Re: [Sab] gt entity bug?

[Pavel Hlavnicka]

the '>' sign doesn't have to be escaped, so it is not escaped. If you 
really need > in xml output file, you need put > in the 
primary source.

Pavel

David Burry wrote:

> Hi, I'm relatively new to xslt and even newer to this list, so hope this 
> is the right place...
> 
> Is there a good reason why this xml:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
> <tag>
> this is a &lt;A HREF="/"&gt;test&lt;/A&gt;.
> </tag>
> 
> plus this xsl:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>
> <!-- nothing needed here, since default output is tag contents -->
> <!-- we could also put a template here that contains one of    -->
> <!-- value-of select="." or value-of select="text()"           -->
> <!-- and we'd get the exact same results                       -->
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> produces this output:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> this is a &lt;A HREF="/">test&lt;/A>.
> 
> instead of this output:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> this is a &lt;A HREF="/"&gt;test&lt;/A&gt;.
> 
> ?????
> 
> This kind of behavior is really messing up my HTML, making forms not 
> function (i.e. not submit) in IE because of technically badly formatted 
> default values, etc...
> 
> Dave



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