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Subject: RE: [xsl] disable-output-escaping
From: "CROFT, MICHAEL" <MCROFT@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:58:35 -0400

Thank you all for the information!  Looks like Ill be passing this issue to
the "Interface" people :-)

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
		Sent:	Monday, July 01, 2002 11:33 AM
		To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
		Subject:	Re: [xsl] disable-output-escaping

		Michael,

		Unfortunately what you're getting is a parser error, which
is as it should 
		be since your file is not well-formed XML. This is a funny
way of saying 
		it's not XML because it doesn't follow the XML rules.

		An '&' character simply can't appear in XML except as an
open delimiter for 
		an entity (or character) reference. Your error is telling
you this by 
		saying that whitespace is not allowed after the &, since it
wants to see a 
		name (for the entity or character reference) but sees a
space instead.

		If you fix whatever process is generating your pseudo-XML so
that this 
		character is represented as &amp;, you'll be fine. Or you
can wrap the 
		entire string in a CDATA marked section (another way of
doing the same thing).

		But no amount of fussing with the XSL will get around this
problem since 
		the process breaks before the XSL processor ever gets to see
the data.

		Cheers,
		Wendell

		At 10:38 AM 7/1/2002, you wrote:
		>I have elements in my XML document that could contain
character entities but
		>should be treated as text...
		>
		>         <Comments>Comments about loss description:  Adding
some comments
		>here & testing the section </Comments>
		>
		>
		>Ive tried using combinations of  <xsl:output method=
"text">, and the
		><xsl:value-of select="Comments"
disable-output-escaping="yes"/>, but Im
		>using them incorrectly.  I am getting this error:
		>
		>Whitespace is not allowed at this location. Error
processing resource
		>'file:///C:/APA/XSLT/Auto Report Project/FNOLReport8.xml'.
Line 18, Position
		>75
		>    <Comments>Comments about loss description:  Adding some
comments here &
		>testing the section</Comments>
	
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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		>----------------------^
		>
		>
		>How do I set this up so <Comments> sections display text
and instruct the
		>XML parser to bypass processing these characters?  The
output is HTML.
		>
		>Mike
		>
		>
	
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