The document() function is designed to read well-formed XML documents.
If it finds anything else, it can either report a fatal error, or
recover by returning an empty node-set.

Michael Kay

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> Subject: SV:  XSL, Escaping, undocumented?
> 
> 
> Hi.
> I found out that, when assigning a value to a variable, from 
> the document function, and the value is not enclosed in tags 
> (<value>11:34</value>), the variable will be empty.
> 
> The question is now, whether it's possible to retrieve the 
> value, when it's not enclosed in tags.
> 
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Pa vegne af Michael Kay
> Sendt: 15. juni 2003 22:22
> Til: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Emne: RE:  XSL, Escaping, undocumented?
> 
> 
> > XSL will try to retrieve a value from the URL: 
> > www.time.gov/time.asp?state=la&amp;applysummertime=no
> >  - which, of course, is invalid to ASP. ASP is not supposed 
> to convert 
> > the URL. The browser is the only device that converts content, that 
> > is, XML, HTML etc.
> >
> > The question is, more directly: How do I put a & in an URL, 
> that I can 
> > pass to the document() function.
> 
> When you write &amp; in the URL in your stylesheet, it is 
> converted by the XML parser to "&", so the URL that is passed 
> to the document function is indeed
> 
 www.time.gov/time.asp?state=la&applysummertime=no

I can't see why this isn't working.

Michael Kay


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