What's wrong with xsl's copy-of?

2,057

Expert 2GB

It's probably the entity < which is <

Does it work if you double-escape it?
<Tag name="West&lt;"/>

Nov 27 '07 #2

sinbao

It's probably the entity < which is <

Does it work if you double-escape it?
<Tag name="West&lt;"/>

Yes, it works, but what i wanted here is a < not <

Nov 28 '07 #3

2,057

Expert 2GB

Don't think it's doable then. The < would break the well-formedness of the xml.

Nov 29 '07 #4

sinbao

Nobody ever encountered this problem?

Dec 4 '07 #5

2,057

Expert 2GB

People have encountered this problem, but it is part of IE's expected behaviour. It doesn't display malformed code correctly.

What you're doing is not allowed.

If you want to force it to work, then you would need to write your own web browser.

Dec 4 '07 #6

sinbao

but why can't only "copy-of" work?

the following xsl can work:

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 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/">

    <html>

        <body>

      <xsl:apply-templates select="Apple/Tag"/>

        </body>

    </html>

  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="Tag">

    <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Dec 10 '07 #7

2,057

Expert 2GB

Looking at it from another point of view,
Your problem is that you're using xmlData.xml.
When you load invalid xml, the call to the xml property returns the empty string because it is invalid xml.

What you want is a text string instead of xml.

Dec 10 '07 #8

sinbao

jkmyoung, thanks very much, but I have some disagreement.
1. I don't think it will work if I try to get the text string of xmlData.
2. It is not a invalid xml, since it will display well using the above style.

Dec 18 '07 #9

2,057

Expert 2GB

1. No, because it is invalid XML and thus doesn't load properly. I suggested using a string object instead of an xml object.
2. What do you mean above style? Do you mean the proper xml works?

Dec 19 '07 #10

sinbao

1. No, because it is invalid XML and thus doesn't load properly. I suggested using a string object instead of an xml object.
2. What do you mean above style? Do you mean the proper xml works?

I mean bad.xsl works well using this style sheet:

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 <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/">

    <html>

        <body>

      <xsl:apply-templates select="Apple/Tag"/>

        </body>

    </html>

  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="Tag">

    <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

So that means it is not an invalid xml file, only "copy-of" can't work...

Dec 21 '07 #11

Try this, I am using decimal entity for less than in xml file and the tag "<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>" in xsl, it shows <, but the proper symbol not viewing

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

<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='copyof.xsl'?>
 
<Apple name="Farm">

  <Tag name="West<"/>

</Apple>

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

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> 

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">

    <html>

      <head>

        <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

          <xsl:comment>

            <![CDATA[

function window.onload()

{

   alert(xmlData.xml);

}

            ]]>

          </xsl:comment>

        </SCRIPT>

      </head>

      <xml id="xmlData">

        <xsl:copy-of select="*"/>

      </xml>

    </html>

  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Dec 21 '07 #12

That is "West(ampersand ash 60 semicolon)"

Dec 21 '07 #13

Without opening and closing braces. Is it working in your system?

Dec 21 '07 #14

2,057

Expert 2GB

what browser are you using? value-of does not work for me.

Dec 22 '07 #15

sinbao

Try this, I am using decimal entity for less than in xml file and the tag "<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>" in xsl, it shows <, but the proper symbol not viewing

yeah, the line

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<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>

really works, although I just remove the "encoding" attribute :-)
amazing, what does it do?

Dec 24 '07 #16

yeah, the line

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<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>

really works, although I just remove the "encoding" attribute :-)
amazing, what does it do?

Sorry, I also dont know exactly, but long back I also faced the viewing problem, while on that time, I had been searched and used it.

Dec 26 '07 #17

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