How to make XslCompiledTransform transform &amps; as XslTransform does

[InvalidLastName]

We have been used XslTransform. .NET 1.1, for transform XML document, Dataset with xsl to HTML. Some of these html contents contain javascript and links. For example:

// javascript
if (a > b)
.....

// xsl contents
abc.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=<xsl:value-of select="$v2" />

However, since we switched to replace XslTransform with XslCompiledTransform, all these entity classes need to be wrapped within xsl:text with DOE
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">

Results from XslTransform
if (a b)
....
abc.aspx?p1=v1&p2=...

Results from XslCompiledTransform without be wrapped within xsl:text without doe
if (a &gt; b)
....
abc.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=...

In our implementations, all the XML contents were "converted into XpathDocument, and the output method of xsl file is set to "html" and I have tried to use 1- StringWriter, 2- XmlWritter, 3- MemoryStream (see below), and we got the same results from all three approaches

Is there a way that we can make the XslCompiledTransform handle those entity classes, e.g. &amp;, &gt;, &lt; , as XslTransform
// using StringWriter version
public static string Transform(System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator nav, string xslPath, Hashtable htArguments, XmlResolver resolver )
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb);

XslCompiledTransform xt = PrepareCompiledTransform(xslPath, resolver);
xt.Transform(nav, PrepareXsltArgumentList(htArguments), sw);
sw.Close();
xt = null;
return sb.ToString();
}
// using xml writer
public static string Transform(System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator nav, string xslPath, Hashtable htArguments, XmlResolver resolver )
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sb);

XslCompiledTransform xt = PrepareCompiledTransform(xslPath, resolver);
XmlWriterSettings settings = xt.OutputSettings.Clone();
settings.CheckCharacters = false;
settings.CloseOutput = true;
XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(sb, settings);
xt.Transform(nav, PrepareXsltArgumentList(htArguments), xw);
xw.Close();
sw.Close();
return sb.ToString();
}
// using memory stream
public static string Transform(System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator nav, string xslPath, Hashtable htArguments, XmlResolver resolver )
{
// use memroystream
MemoryStream mry = new MemoryStream();
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(mry, System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8);

XslCompiledTransform xt = PrepareCompiledTransform(xslPath, resolver);
xt.Transform(nav, PrepareXsltArgumentList(htArguments), mry);

mry.Position = 0;
string s = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
return s;

}
private static XslCompiledTransform PrepareCompiledTransform(string xslPath, XmlResolver stylesheetResolver )
{
bool bEnableDebug = false;
XslCompiledTransform xt = new XslCompiledTransform(bEnableDebug);

XsltSettings settings = new XsltSettings();
settings.EnableDocumentFunction = true;
XmlResolver theResolver = (stylesheetResolver == null ? new XmlUrlResolver() : stylesheetResolver);
xt.Load(GetXmlFilePath(xslPath), settings, theResolver);
return xt;
}

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi,

The disable-output-escaping is in a gray area

From the XSLT 1.0 Spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#disable-output-escaping:

"Since disabling output escaping may not work with all XSLT processors and
can result in XML that is not well-formed, it should be used only when there
is no alternative."

So an XSLT processor is not required to support d-o-e.

In this case, you can try to use a StreamWriter to write out the results.

Please check the following links for more information about this issue.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...k9(VS.80).aspx
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread534528.html
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...72483&SiteID=1

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[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

InvalidLastName wrote:

We have been used XslTransform. .NET 1.1, for transform XML document,
Dataset with xsl to HTML. Some of these html contents contain javascript
and links. For example:

// javascript
if (a &gt; b)

Script should go out with no escaping. Just make sure you output HTML -
set <xsl:output method="html"and output into Stream or TextWriter.

// xsl contents
abc.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=<xsl:value-of select="$v2" />

In HTML & in links must be escaped as &amp; Don't put efforts in
producing malformed HTML.
--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
http://blog.tkachenko.com | http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://www.XLinq.Net

[InvalidLastName]

Thank for the reply.

However, Firefox has trouble to recognize &amp; in the link as &. All our parameters in the QueryString are returned as amp;p1 instead of p1

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <so**@body.comwrote in message news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

InvalidLastName wrote:

>We have been used XslTransform. .NET 1.1, for transform XML document,
Dataset with xsl to HTML. Some of these html contents contain javascript
and links. For example:

// javascript
if (a &gt; b)

Script should go out with no escaping. Just make sure you output HTML -
set <xsl:output method="html"and output into Stream or TextWriter.

>// xsl contents
abc.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=<xsl:value-of select="$v2" />

In HTML & in links must be escaped as &amp; Don't put efforts in
producing malformed HTML.
--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
http://blog.tkachenko.com | http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://www.XLinq.Net

[InvalidLastName]

Hi Kevin,
I am not try to use d-o-e with XslCompiledTransform. However, since the
behavior changed, I have to use d-o-e to make sure XslCompiledTransform
generate HTML all the browsers can process. IE has no problem to read some
thing like

a.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=v1&amp;p3=v3

IE return
p1
p2
p3
in QueryString collection.

But Firefox will return
amp;p1
amp;p2
amp;p3
And neither Browsers understand what is

i f (a &gt; b)

I have tried the memoryStream with output method= html and still got the
same results

Please let me know what to generate HTML contents contain
if (a b)

a.aspx?p1=v1&p2=v2
as well-formed XML
Thanks

Michael

"Kevin Yu [MSFT]" <v-****@online.microsoft.comwrote in message
news:WS**************@TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...

Hi,

The disable-output-escaping is in a gray area

From the XSLT 1.0 Spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#disable-output-escaping:

"Since disabling output escaping may not work with all XSLT processors and
can result in XML that is not well-formed, it should be used only when
there
is no alternative."

So an XSLT processor is not required to support d-o-e.

In this case, you can try to use a StreamWriter to write out the results.

Please check the following links for more information about this issue.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...k9(VS.80).aspx
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread534528.html
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...72483&SiteID=1

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[InvalidLastName]

Oleg,
I verified my code again. I do have out method set to html and I am using memory Stream. The generated contents for the script block still showed a &gt; b instead of a b

I am not quite sure what I did wrong. Here are code fragments:

## from xsd
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"

xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" >

<xsl:output method="html" encoding="utf-8" />

## from transform method

public static string Transform(System.Xml.XPath.XPathNavigator nav, string xslPath, Hashtable htArguments, XmlResolver resolver )

{

MemoryStream mry = new MemoryStream();

StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(mry, System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8);

XslCompiledTransform xt = PrepareCompiledTransform(xslPath, resolver);

xt.Transform(nav, PrepareXsltArgumentList(htArguments), mry);

mry.Position = 0;

string s = sr.ReadToEnd();

sr.Close();

return s;
}

Thanks

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <so**@body.comwrote in message news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

InvalidLastName wrote:

>We have been used XslTransform. .NET 1.1, for transform XML document,
Dataset with xsl to HTML. Some of these html contents contain javascript
and links. For example:

// javascript
if (a &gt; b)

Script should go out with no escaping. Just make sure you output HTML -
set <xsl:output method="html"and output into Stream or TextWriter.

>// xsl contents
abc.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=<xsl:value-of select="$v2" />

In HTML & in links must be escaped as &amp; Don't put efforts in
producing malformed HTML.
--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
http://blog.tkachenko.com | http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://www.XLinq.Net

[Martin Honnen]

InvalidLastName wrote:

I am not try to use d-o-e with XslCompiledTransform. However, since the
behavior changed, I have to use d-o-e to make sure XslCompiledTransform
generate HTML all the browsers can process. IE has no problem to read some
thing like

a.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=v1&amp;p3=v3

IE return
p1
p2
p3
in QueryString collection.

But Firefox will return
amp;p1
amp;p2
amp;p3

That is not true, Firefox will certainly handle a properly escaped
ampersand in a HTML document, see the link in
<http://www34.brinkster.com/libertydevelop/asp/test2006110601.html>
for an example.

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Martin Honnen]

InvalidLastName wrote:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"

Take that xmlns declaration out, html output method applies to elements
in no namespace while your default namespace declaration xmlns="..."
puts the element in a namespace and that way the html output method does
not apply to the elements your stylesheet generates.

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

InvalidLastName wrote:

However, Firefox has trouble to recognize &amp; in the link as &. All
our parameters in the QueryString are returned as *amp;p1* instead of *p1*

Sorry, but I hardly believe Firefox doesn't support such basic HTML
specification requirement. I'm sure it does. You must be having double
escaping problem - chances are your output is &amp;amp;p1.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
http://blog.tkachenko.com | http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://www.XLinq.Net

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

InvalidLastName wrote:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"

Yeah, Martin is right. This declaration drives XslCompiledTransform
crazy. It actually makes your output elements to be not HTML, but custom
XML and so XslCompiledTransform doesn't apply HTML output rules.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
http://blog.tkachenko.com | http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://www.XLinq.Net

[InvalidLastName]

Hi Martin,
Thanks for pointing this out. Yes, you are correct. The Firefox works when the &amp; embedded the <A href>

I did more researches on why I got the Firefox issue at first place, and it turned that our page was opened by Javascript as
var s = "test.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=v2&amp;p3=v3";
document.location = s; //

Please see following full example:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<a href="test.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=v2&amp;p3=v3">this will work in IE and Firefox<a>


<script>
function openWin()
{
var s = "test.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=v2&amp;p3=v3";
document.location = s;
//window.open(s, "popup", "height=500, width=700, menubar, scrollbars, resizable, status");
}
</script>
<br/>
<a href="javascript:openWin()">this will not work in Firefox</a>
</body>
</html>
In Firefox:
result from first link: http://localhost/test.aspx?p1=v1&p2=v2&p3=v3

result from second link: http://localhost/test.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=v2&amp;p3=v3
Any suggestion is really appreciated. Thanks

- ILN
"Martin Honnen" <ma*******@yahoo.dewrote in message news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

InvalidLastName wrote:

>I am not try to use d-o-e with XslCompiledTransform. However, since the
behavior changed, I have to use d-o-e to make sure XslCompiledTransform
generate HTML all the browsers can process. IE has no problem to read some
thing like

a.aspx?p1=v1&amp;p2=v1&amp;p3=v3

IE return
p1
p2
p3
in QueryString collection.

But Firefox will return
amp;p1
amp;p2
amp;p3

That is not true, Firefox will certainly handle a properly escaped
ampersand in a HTML document, see the link in
<http://www34.brinkster.com/libertydevelop/asp/test2006110601.html>
for an example.

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[InvalidLastName]

Oleg and Martin,
Thank both of you. This is not the first time I got helps from you two =).

After I taking out the xml declaration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5", everything start working just like old XslTransform

The reason we had that declaration is for intellisense on HTML elements in .NET 1.1. That does mess up the element namespace =(

Really appreciate it
ILN
"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <so**@body.comwrote in message news:45**************@body.com...

InvalidLastName wrote:

><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"

Yeah, Martin is right. This declaration drives XslCompiledTransform
crazy. It actually makes your output elements to be not HTML, but custom
XML and so XslCompiledTransform doesn't apply HTML output rules.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
http://blog.tkachenko.com | http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://www.XLinq.Net

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi ILN,

I'm sorry, but I don't have FireFox for testing.

It seems that you have resolved the problem by removing
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5". If you have any
other question, please feel free to post them in the community.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support
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