& not & !!!

[relisys]

Hey guys!

I am processing an xsl file to HTML output. Within this file I hava a call to a servlet through an image tag (takes parameters, produces a graph and outputs it to a jpeg image).

The problem is with the parameter delimiters.

<xsl:element name="input">
<xsl:attribute name="src">
<xsl:text>

http://localhost:8081/servlet/RChartServlet?

TITLECHART=Costs analysis&
LEGEND=TRUE&
SERIE_1=Product A&
SERIE_2=Product B& ............
</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

Obviously XSL doesnt like &, so I converted these all to &

The problem now is that the outputted HTML now coverts the & to &, but I need just the single character "&".

Does anyone know a stronger xsl fuction than <xsl:text> to force the output direct into the HTML?


Cheers!


Relisys

 

[chiph]

Having unescaped ampersands in your file means that it's not valid XML. They would need to be sent as escaped entities: [ignore]&[/ignore]. Your XML processor (MSXML 4.0 or similar) will convert it back to a regular "&" when you access the .text property of the node. This is a sure sign that whoever sent it to you built the file up via string concatenation, and not using an XML processor.

Chip H.


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[harebrain]

URL encode the ampersands: substitute %26 for them in the URL. XML won't have a problem with that, and whatever reads the URL will be capable of decoding the hex substitution at the appropriate time.