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From: Martin Honnen <mahotrash@-----.-->
To: NULL
Date: 7/6/2004 11:18:00 AM


Nitin M wrote:

> I have an xml schema with some custom tags inside the xs:documentation
> section. I use an XSLT to generate some text and xml out of this. I have set
> the output method to "text" and encoding to "utf-8" in the xslt. However, I
> want that any special characters should be xml encoded in the output xml and
> text that I generate (& should be encoded to &amp; and so on).

If you choose output method text then no encoding will happen as plain 
text doesn't know about entity references like &amp;

> I have tried using disable-output-escaping but it does not seem to work.
> Right now I am using the html codes like &#38; etc. but this is not user
> friendly.
> 
> Is there any way out?

If you want to have &amp; in your text output then you need
   <xsl:text>&amp;amp;</xsl:text>

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