how do I escape < in my xslt? thanks

In fact, using:

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

I still get wellformedness error.. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Try \<

XML won't accept < other than as tag construct or inside a CDATA section. Use one of the built in entity references, & l t ; (without the spaces).

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

joe, by "Use one of the built in entity references, & l t ; (without the spaces).", I don't know what you mean. Could you just give me a code example? Thank you

< in any XML document (including XSLT) is written &lt;. In case that doesn't show up in the forum it is four characters, "&", "l", "t", ";".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Ahh. thank you. this is better, but still not completely solving my problem. In the output, I need to see the "<" and ">" characters, but instead are seeing "&lt;" and "&gt;".

Am I still missing something here? Thank you so far!

Why do you need to see < and > in the output? Is it perhaps because you are trying to generate tags "by hand"? That's not the right thing to do in XSLT - if you want to generate an element node, use instructions like xsl:element.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

I have a similiar need but it is to output the following 5 characters: #10; to the result stream. I am writing a SpreadsheetML xslt that needs to put multiple strings in an Excel Cell and have them appear on separate lines within the cell. Here is what Excel generates when I put 3 lines of text to a cell and then save the worksheet as xml.

<Cell ss:StyleID="s62">
  <Data ss:Type="String">ron#10;was #10;here#10;</Data>
</Cell>

I'm trying to do the same thing with xslt.
My real code is:

<Cell ss:StyleID="{$rowStyle}">
  <Data ss:Type="String">
    <xsl:for-each select="msxml:node-set($splitString)/token"> <xsl:value-of select="."/>#10;
    </xsl:for-each>
  </Data>
</Cell>

Instead of getting #10; in the output I get &amp;#10;

Is there a way that I can get what I need or am I trying to do something that can't be done.

Thanks for the help

Just a note on my previous post. In all the places where I entered 5 characters (an ampersand plus #10;) the ampersand disappeared. Now I'm not even sure how to express what the problem is except that where you see #10; I keyed in ampersand#10;