entity < converted as ascii character

priyan24 · June 3rd, 2013, 03:17 AM

I'm using saxon8.jar to do some xml conversion. The problem is while doing conversion an element's attribute value < converted as ascii character. Please advice how to avoid this

Input XML
<mfenced open="<" close=">">

Output XML
<mml:mfenced open="<" close=">">

Regards
Bala

bonekrusher · June 3rd, 2013, 07:11 AM

Try

Code:

 <xsl:value-of select="@open" disable-output-escaping="yes" />

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_value-of.asp

priyan24 · June 7th, 2013, 05:36 AM

already tried this syntax but no use

samjudson · June 7th, 2013, 10:41 AM

Are you sure this is what is being output? Having an < inside an attribute is not valid XML, so I doubt that the Saxon XSLT processor is generating it. Either you are explicitly telling Saxon to generate invalid XML, or you are not using a property XML serializer to generate your XML from the XSLT processor output.

Perhaps show us the bit of your XSLT which you are having the problem with?

mhkay · June 7th, 2013, 01:18 PM

Please note that the current version of Saxon is 9.5; I don't know which version exactly you are using, but it's rather old.

But I doubt that is the cause of your problem. You need to explain more precisely what your transformation is doing it and how you are running it. Ideally supply all the information needed for someone else to reproduce the problem.

priyan24 · June 8th, 2013, 12:59 PM

Yes you are correct I'm using saxon8.jar. For your reference code mentioned below.

xslt:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='2.0'>

<xsl:output method="html" encoding="us-ascii" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="mfenced">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="open">
<xsl:value-of select="@open" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="close">
<xsl:value-of select="@close" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

input:
<html>
<head></head>
<body><math><mrow><mfenced open="&#60;" close="&#62;"><mn>123</mn></mfenced></mrow></math></body>
</html>

output:
<mfenced open="<" close=">"></mfenced>

Martin Honnen · June 8th, 2013, 01:09 PM

So which input do you have and which one do you want?
disable-output-escaping does not work in attribute values, as far as I remember.

mhkay · June 8th, 2013, 02:30 PM

With the HTML output method, "<" is the correct way to output the less-than character: see http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-ser.../#HTML_ATTRIBS

disable-output-escaping has no effect on the way attributes are output.

priyan24 · June 9th, 2013, 11:08 AM

Thanks for the reply