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Martin,
thank you. I understand that the '>' doesn't have to be escaped in
this case, and the final results is valid XML. However,
I am wondering about a clean way to prevent the serializer from
escaping it in the attributes.
Currently, the combination of <xsl:text> and CDATA, is working fine,
but it's ugly as I loose syntax highlight, and indentation.
That is why I am looking for a better a way.

Thank you.

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
>>
>> In on of the sheets I am working on there is the sign ">" in on of the
>> attributes. I am trying to get this in the resulting XML.
>> So I have this in my template:
>>
>>        <dependencies>
>>                <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
>>                <![CDATA[
>>                        <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-api"
>> rev="1.6.4"
>> conf="provided->*" />
>>                        <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-log4j12"
>> rev="1.6.4"
>> conf="compile->*" />
>>                        <dependency org="log4j" name="log4j" rev="1.2.16"
>> conf="compile->*,!sources,!javadoc">
>>                        <exclude module="jmxri" />
>>                        <exclude module="jmxtools" />
>>                        </dependency>
>>                        <dependency org="junit" name="junit" rev="4.8"
>> conf="test->*" />
>>                        <dependency org="javax.servlet"
>> name="javax.servlet-api"
>> rev="3.0.1" conf="provided->*">
>>                        <artifact name="javax.servlet-api" type="jar" />
>>                        </dependency>
>>                        ]]>
>>                </xsl:text>
>>
>> I am using text and CDATA, as you can see in my style sheet.
>> Is there a better way to output this without escaping the XML and
>> generate the indented XML ?
>
>
>
> Well the '>' sign does not need to be escaped but often is. So I don't see
> any problem with doing
>
>
>                             <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-api"
> rev="1.6.4"
> conf="provided->*" />
>                             <dependency org="org.slf4j"
name="slf4j-log4j12"
> rev="1.6.4"
> conf="compile->*" />
>                             <dependency org="log4j" name="log4j"
> rev="1.2.16"
> conf="compile->*,!sources,!javadoc" >
>                             <exclude module="jmxri" />
>                             <exclude module="jmxtools" />
>                             </dependency>
>                             <dependency org="junit" name="junit" rev="4.8"
> conf="test->*" />
>                             <dependency org="javax.servlet"
> name="javax.servlet-api"
> rev="3.0.1" conf="provided->*">
>                             <artifact name="javax.servlet-api" type="jar"
/>
>                             </dependency>
>
> literally in your stylesheet code, the serializer might later escape the
'>'
> signs '&gt;'.
>
> If you want to use less than signs '<' then you need to escape them e.g
>  <foo att="a &lt; b"/>
> that is an XML syntax requirement and not specific to XSLT.
>
>
> --
>
>        Martin Honnen --- MVP Data Platform Development
>        http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/

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