Ben,
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
<![CDATA[
 if(this.field && this.field.value != null)

]]>

Should help you
HTH
Vasu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ben senior" <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:21 AM
Subject:  The old problem of Javascript, XSL and ampersand...


> As far as I can tell from the lists, there is no way to get an XSL sheet 
> to output valid javascript, the <>& chars are converted to &amp; etc...
> 
> e.g.        if(this.field && this.field.value != null)  becomes 
> if(this.field &amp; &amp; this.field.value != null) which is invalid 
> JScript.
> 
> However, I didn't get any exact matches on the list for this problem. So 
> that the list contains a definitive and discoverable answer, can 
> somebody confirm whether or not it is possible to get an XSL template to 
> emit unescaped characters like "&".
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Ben