Re: Handling Ampersands from Martin Duerst on 2001-06-21 (xmlschema-dev@w3.org from June 2001)

From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:40:22 +0900
To: vdv@dyomedea.com, "Whitwell, Martyn" <martyn.whitwell@ic.ac.uk>
Cc: xmlschema-dev@w3.org
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20010621103752.0580b340@sh.w3.mag.keio.ac.jp>

At 17:07 01/06/20 +0200, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
>If this transformation is done through XSLT into a HTML href element,
>the XSLT processor will take care of unescaping the "&amp;"...

The XSLT processor will temporarily (for internal processing)
unescape the &amp;, but put it back in again when producing
the HTML. HTML requires it as much as XML.

(Most browsers are lenitent in that they deal with a simple &,
too, but this is just bugwards compatibility, nothing else.)

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Wednesday, 20 June 2001 21:43:06 UTC