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RE: amp
- From: Jarno dot Elovirta at nokia dot com
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:39:16 +0300
- Subject: RE: [xsl] amp
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Hi,
> The data come from the DB, and it's the user who feed the DB
> hence can not
> control user from using '&'. Is there a way of escaping this
> character if
> the data comes from the DB? I have resaerched all over on the
> internet but
> have not gotten an appropriate explaination. It tells me to
> use '&' but
> this data comes from the DB, how can i pick all '&' and
> trasform them in to
> '&'.
You could preprocess the data with e.g. sed, perl, or with the tool you're using to retrieve the documents, just by replacing every '&' character in the document with "&". This could, however, not work if the XML document contains entity references (like ) or character entity references (like  ), in which case you should only replace the ampersands that are not entity delimiters.
Cheers,
Jarno
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