Hi ,

I have to fetch a string which is concatenated with '<' this charecter. When I use concat fucntion it is throwing an exception.

concat('<',"api"). I also tried with &lt; even that is not working. Can somebody suggest a way to concatenate these two ?

Thanks,
Srini

It is always helpful if you tell us the exception you are receiving when you get one, then we can at least know what exact error you are getting.

You probably need to encode the character, either as &lt; or possible double encoded as &amp;lt; I can't remember.

However if you are trying to output tags as literal text you might be approaching things in the wrong manner, so a little background might provide a much better solution to your problem.

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Think before you post: What have you tried?

Escaping the less-than sign '<' as '&lt;' should work. If it does not then you need to tell us more details as to what exactly you have tried, show us minimal but complete XML input documents and stylesheet documents and tell us which XSLT processor you use and which exception exactly you get.

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Hi All,

Thanks for your quick response.

I am using IBM tool Datapower and they are using custom parser I believe. However I have got an alternate way and it worked.

Thanks for your help.

Srini