Thanks Martin,

Just what I needed. We are using a 3rd party component and we have to 
construct the xml in a certain format.

Once again, thanks.

Sham.

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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> sham wrote:
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>> This component handles the escaping. But I need to create an XSLT script 
>> that will give us the row with the XML apart of the attribute.  Can this 
>> be done?
>
> I am not sure I understand what you want to achieve. If you want XML to be 
> a part of an attribute value then you need to escape the XML e.g. like 
> this stylesheet does
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>   version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:template match="dataset">
>   <Row>
>     <xsl:attribute name="firstattribute"><xsl:apply-templates select="." 
> mode="serialize" /></xsl:attribute>
>   </Row>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="*" mode="serialize">
>   <xsl:text>&lt;</xsl:text>
>   <xsl:value-of select="name()" />
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" mode="serialize" />
>   <xsl:text>&gt;</xsl:text>
>   <xsl:apply-templates mode="serialize" />
>   <xsl:text>&lt;/</xsl:text>
>   <xsl:value-of select="name()" />
>   <xsl:text>&gt;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="@*" mode="serialize">
>   <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>   <xsl:value-of select="concat(name(), '=&quot;', ., '&quot;')" />
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Applied to your XML sample the result is then
>
> <Row firstattribute="&lt;dataset id=&quot;dataset_1&quot; 
> name=&quot;Client - number unplanned&quot;&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_1&quot; value=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_2&quot; value=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_3&quot; value=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_4&quot; value=&quot;4&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_5&quot; value=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_6&quot; value=&quot;6&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_7&quot; value=&quot;7&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_8&quot; value=&quot;8&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_9&quot; value=&quot;9&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_10&quot; value=&quot;10&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_11&quot; value=&quot;11&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;data 
> id=&quot;dataset_1_12&quot; 
> value=&quot;12&quot;&gt;&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/dataset&gt;"></Row>
>
> -- 
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/