XSLT: Using copy-of to output xml

Question

I am using the copy-of element in xsl to print some xml to client, but the xslt outputs the unescapes the escaped xml characters to the output e.g.

if the xml being transformed is

and if i use the copy-of to output this node <xsl:copy-of select"."></>

the output converts the "&" in attribute attr to just "&" which causes xml parse error on client.

how can i preserve the escaped xml characters when outputting the xml

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

Keshav

i am doing transform to render an HTML but i want to preserve some parts of XML in div tags so that i can process them later if required — keshav84
Yes, but what's actually doing the transform? Are you using .NET, Java, or some other platform? Also, once you've done the transform, how are you passing it to the client? — Flynn1179

Unknown Unknown · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-15T13:24:30

I can't reproduce the problem. Provided full stylesheet and your processor. This

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
    <xsl:template match="/*">
            <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Return:

<one attr="http://one.com/page?param1=value1&amp;param2=value2">
<child>text</child>
</one>

And this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
    <xsl:template match="/*">
            <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Return:

<one attr="http://one.com/page?param1=value1&amp;param2=value2"> <child>text</child> </one>

XSLT: Using copy-of to output xml

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