tojo Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Hello! Below is listed both the xslt stylesheet and the xml source document.What I find somewhat strange is that I can use this xslt instruction which work fine <xsl:if test="@age > 110">without replacing > for >Can somebody explain that ? Xslt stylesheet****************** <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/" > <html> <head> <title>Age check on Characters</title> </head> <body> <h3>The recorded age is unusually high. Please check original data.</h3> <xsl:apply-templates select="/Characters/Character" /> </body> </html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="Character"> <xsl:if test="@age > 110"> <p> <b><xsl:value-of select="."/></b> is older than expected. Please check if this character's age, <b><xsl:value-of select="@age" /></b> is correct </p> </xsl:if> </xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet> Xml source document***************************<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><Characters> <Character age="99">Julius Caesar</Character> <Character age="23">Anne Boleyn</Character> <Character age="41">George Washington</Character> <Character age="45">Martin Luther</Character> <Character age="800">Mathuselah</Character> <Character age="119">Moses</Character> <Character age="50">Asterix</Character></Characters>//Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Honnen Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Well any XSLT stylesheet is an XML document so it follows XML syntax rules and with XML the two characters you need to escape are "&" and "<" as "&" respectively "<" as long as they are not used as part of markup (i.e. an character or entity reference with "&" respectively a tag delimiter with "<"). The ">" sign can (and some say) should be escaped but it is not strictly necessary to follow XML well-formedness rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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