xml-dev - Re: XML Rendering problem

[Rajiv Mordani <Rajiv.Mordani@eng.sun.com>]

& indicates entities.. So if you need to show the & you should put &
in place of the &.

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Georg Edelmann wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am not sure if this is the right mailinglist to send this problem to. If
> not, it would be great if you could point me to the correct one.
> 
> So here is my problem:
> 
> The following XSL file does not work, rendering it with either the IBM nor
> the SUN xml parsers (either using Xalan or Saxon as XSL renderer):
> 
> ----------------------------------------- stylesheet start
> <xsl:stylesheet
>      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
>      xmlns="hhtp://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"
>      result-ns="">
>      
> <xsl:template match="text()">
> </xsl:template>               
> 
> <xsl:template match="image">
>     <a href="/NASApp/portal/home?tmpl=browse&url=next">
>         <xsl:value-of select="imageurl"/>
>     </a>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ----------------------------------------- stylesheet end
> 
> The problem lies in the line with the href parameter. The parser
> interprets '&url' as an html command and wants to have a trailing ';'. It does not
> understand that the '&' separates two parameters in the URL. 
> In my opinion that is a serious bug in all the parsers i tested so far.
> 
> Georg Edelmann
> 
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