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Transformation of & does not work correct in the Multi Output mode (-mo)

pie

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11/23/2005

Transformation of & does not work correct in the Multi Output mode (-mo)
Posted: 23 Nov 05 8:22 AM (Switzerland)

Hy I have the problem with the Multi output (-mo)

I generate hunderts of XML Files with the exslt:document funktionality

the problem are mapping of text that contain & character.

I realised that the mapping of & works fine when i run in NOT Multi output.

When I switch to Multi Output mode the & is allways transformated in a &

This should not happen because I exape that part via a CDATA construction

Example:

This XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="charrefstest.xslt"?>
<Body><![CDATA[Text Part 1 
 Text Part 2]]></Body>

This XSLT:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
     <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
     <xsl:template match="/">
          <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="Body"/>
     </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Produces this output in NOT Mulit Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>Text Part 1 
 Text Part 2

With Multi Output option (-mo):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>Text Part 1 &#x0D;&#x0A; Text Part 2

And that is not that what I want.

As I see it, I think we have here a BUG in the Processor. Isn't it?

What about a BUG fix?

olegt

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Re: Transformation of & does not work correct in the Multi Output mode (-mo)
Posted: 01 Dec 05 12:58 PM (Israel)

That's not a bug, but a known limitation, documented at http://mvp-xml.sourceforge.net/exslt/.

You see, the problem is that multioutput is implemented by postprocessig XSLT output by custom XmlWriter - MultiXmlTextWriter and .NET always inores disable-output-escaping when transforming to an XmlWriter.

And there is no easy workaround unfortunately.

What I can do is add a feature for mapping output characters like in XSLT2 (see http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/CR-xslt20-20051103/#element-output-character), say you can run

nxslt.exe ... ... -map "§" "&"

then in XSLT stylesheet you use § instead of & and at output it gets replaced by &.

What do you think? Ideas?

Oleg Tkachenko, Microsoft MVP for XML, MCPD
http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://blog.tkachenko.com

pie

2 posts

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11/23/2005

Re: Transformation of & does not work correct in the Multi Output mode (-mo)
Posted: 20 Dec 05 1:19 AM (Switzerland) Modified By pie on 12/20/2005 1:22:27 AM)

First: Sorry that I didn't replay imitate ...

Your proposal off adding an output character mapping sounds good and I think that would work for my problem.

So, can you do it?