RE: [Announce] Escaping double quotation marks in XSL

Timothy,
well, .... yes, .... but I think that trying to inject double quotes into
the attribute value (with modifications to you suggestion)  in this way
will only get them escaped as " which is not what the user wanted.

- Brian



                                                                           
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Maybe you should explore something like this:

    <xsl:element name='image'>
        <xsl:for-each select='@*'>
            <xsl:attribute name='qname(.)'><xsl:value-of select='.'
/></xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:element>

This way, the transformer is at least aware of the tag you are trying to
insert into the output.



tlj

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To: Brian Minchau
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Subject: Re: [Announce] Escaping double quotation marks in XSL



> Assuming that you are only interested in stream serialization, have you
> thought of doing the serialization yourself for particular elements?  For
> example, something like this:
>
> <!-- self serialization of image elements with tag for image done in
> CDATA,
but delegate attributes serialization -->
> <xsl:template match="image">
>  <![CDATA[ <image]>><xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/> <![CDATA[ >]>>
> </xsl:template>

I *REALLY* detest that idiom. I've seen many people hurt themselves by
trying to hand-generate XML; I consider it a very bad practice. Unless
you're forced to do it in order to work with a downstream tool which has
not been implemented correctly, I would recommend finding another solution.
Any other solution.