Re: displaying an html String

[David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM]

This is a general XSLT question and is best asked on the Mulberry XSL list.
If you search the Mulberry archives for "disable-output-escaping", you'll
find lots of information about why this is difficult, if not impossible to
do, and also why it's just a bad idea to embed markup within a string in
XSLT.

You should consider putting this "parameter" in a file and retrieving it
with the document function, or pre-parsing it yourself and passing it in as
nodes.  If it's ill-formed, you could "tidy" it up before using it -- the
serialization process will turn it back into HTML.

Dave



                                                                                       
                                                           
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Hi there,

 is there any way to prevent a stylesheet global parameter String from
having its characters escaped?
I am trying to "display" the value of such a paramater (which is html).

so the value I'm setting could be:

new String("<a href="foo">fi</a>");

but the < is being turned into &lt; and the > into &gt;

thanks for your help.
Hanaa Barakat


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