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Re: Is there a way to translate entities into their character equivalents?

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Steve Carton wrote:
> I'd like to cheat in my style sheet and do something like this:
> 
> <xsl:if test="blahblahblah">&lt;a href="go away"&gt;</xsl:if>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> &lt;/a&gt;
> 
> My real world case is much more complex, but is there a way to 
> have the HTML generated for this contain the <> symbols instead of 
> the entities?

<xsl:if test="blabblahblah">
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;html fragments&gt;</xsl:text>
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;more html fragments</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>

Most likely there *is* a way to do it right, though, and you'll just keep
having to do ugly workarounds like this if you don't change your approach
to generating HTML from a linear, tag-based approach to a hierarchical,
element-based approach.

   - Mike
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