Hi,

I want to output an entity reference (newline) in a resulting xml file

<Data>entity#10;reference</Data>

I try to output this entity reference with a special template containing:
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>entity&amp;#10;reference</xsl:text>

But the XSL processor actually puts a new line in the output and the resulting document is:

<Data>entity
reference</Data>

How can i do ?

Thanks for your help

well, your xsl tag isn't valid XML, technically. Each attribute must be a name/value pair. You only have a name.

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">...</xsl:text>

would be the 'correct' way to do this.

Fair warning, though -- I've had problems with disable-output-escaping before. I've written stylesheets that worked great with saxon but didn't work with other xslt processors, namely the sablotron processor that ships with PHP.

Good luck, let us know if it doesn't work!

Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Hi, and thanks for your reply...

I only forgot the ="yes" in my posting but i putted it in the code and it works as i explained, that is outputs a real newline character

Regards

Perhaps you need to use CDATA:

<Data><![CDATA[entity#10;reference]]></Data>

That should leave everything inside of it as-is.

Peter

Hi,

No...
The file i want to generate is a XML Spreadsheet file.
First Excel does not recognize CDATA sections
Second, my problème is only to generate in the output file the character sequence. In a CDATA sequence or not

Regards