How to represent '&' as a variable in xslt file

[ofuuzo1@yahoo.no]

Hi,

I have tried the following but it do not work:

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="string( '&')"/>
<xsl:variable name="path1" select="string( '&#38;')"/>
<xsl:variable name="path1" select="&"/>

Thanks in advance
Ofuuzo

[Martin Honnen]

Re: How to represent '&amp;' as a variable in xslt file

ofuuzo1@yahoo.n o wrote:

I have tried the following but it do not work:
>
<xsl:variable name="path1" select="string( '&')"/>

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="'&amp;' "/>




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[Joseph J. Kesselman]

Re: How to represent '&amp;' as a variable in xslt file

Martin Honnen wrote:

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="'&amp;' "/>

That should be equivalent to select="'&#38;' ", of course.

(The trick here is the double-quoting. Select is interpreted as an
XPath... and the XPath syntax wants its own layer of quotes to indicate
that you're trying to express a literal value.)

[Richard Tobin]

Re: How to represent '&amp;' as a variable in xslt file

In article <a3f5c68f-27a1-46d7-a800-31b4e1da07c1@d1 g2000hsg.google groups.com>,
<ofuuzo1@yahoo. nowrote:

><xsl:variabl e name="path1" select="string( '&')"/>
><xsl:variabl e name="path1" select="&"/>

Those won't work because they're not well-formed XML.

><xsl:variabl e name="path1" select="string( '&#38;')"/>

That should work: what error do you get?

The simplest solution is

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="'&#38;' "/>

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