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Subject: RE: [xsl] synthaxe pb with > in xsl
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 19:26:04 -0000

Writing > as &gt; is an XML rule, not an XPath rule. If you write XPath
statements in an XML document you use the XML escape conventions, if
your write XPath statements in Java programs you use the Java escape
conventions.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Laurence Mossuz
> Sent: 20 March 2003 13:42
> To: XSL-forms xslforms
> Subject: [xsl] synthaxe pb with &gt; in xsl
> 
> 
> hello
> 
> in my xsl file the following condition id well tested and 
> works fine : <xsl:if  test="string-length(Nuance) &gt;= 5"> 
> .... </xsl:if>
> 
> but when i create in java (with the dom libraries) the xsl 
> dom tree, i don't succeed to write the xsl:if condition like this :
> 
> .....
> If2.setAttribute("test","string-length('"+node+"') &gt; '5' 
> "); where node is the name of the current node.
> 
> I don't understand the pb. Moreover the following synthaxe works :
> 
> If2.setAttribute("test","string-length('"+node+"') > '5' ");
> 
> i'm afraid that these signs > or < are misunderstood in xsl
> 
> many thanks for your help
> 
> Lo.
> 
> 
> 
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