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THanks much Wendell I got it perfect now. Will make
the change. I guess you saved me from trouble down the
road :)
--- Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Abhi,
> 
> It's not whitespace inside the &_amp; entity, it's
> the whitespace between 
> the output ampersand (an actual ampersand, when you
> have disabled output 
> escaping) and the string that is to be the name of
> your newly constructed 
> entity reference, that will be a problem.
> 
> Look at the code of your post this morning and
> you'll see that there is 
> whitespace that will appear *after* your ampersand
> but *before* the value 
> of the attribute representing the entity name:
> 
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
>    &_amp;
> </xsl:text>
> <xsl:value-of select="@entity-name"/>
> 
> ... the whitespace after the &_amp; and before the
> close </xsl:text> tag is 
> what will get you.
> 
> Really all you have to do is to run the code you
> sent to the list this a.m. 
> (which was much like above) exactly as given, and
> then try to parse the 
> result. (This kind of fragility is one of several
> reasons why we frown on 
> d-o-e-based approaches except as a last resort.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> At 04:32 PM 11/11/2003, you wrote:
> >Hi Wendell,
> >Yes now I get what you were saying. But the white
> >space is before
> >"&amp;" and not as "&   amp;" so I do not see any
> >reason why
> >
> ><xsl:text> &amp;</xsl:text> should not work the
> same
> >way as
> ><xsl:text>&amp;</xsl:text>.
> >The only thing that may happen is that there will
> be
> >an extra space in the output xml if I am correct.
> >Help me understand if you think I did not catch
> what
> >you are trying to say.
> >Thanks,
> >Abhi
> 
> 
>
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