There's never a clean way to generate invalid XML. In XSLT 2.0 you can
achieve this using character maps: map a couple of private-use-area
characters to the strings "<!--" and "-->". This should at least mean that
you can generate a proper element and attribute node. But you're still
dependent on the transformation phase being immediately followed by
serialization.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tom tom [mailto:tomxsllist@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 May 2007 10:11
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Embedding an SSI echo in an XML attribute
> 
> I need to generate an apache .sssi file that contains the 
> following kind of
> code:
> 
> <a href="<!--#echo var="grar.5.url" encoding="none" -->">link</a>
> 
> To acheive this in XSLT 1 we generated the code as CDATA in a 
> plain text
> file:
> 
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;a 
> href="</xsl:text> <xsl:comment>#echo var='grar.5.url' 
> encoding='none'</xsl:comment> <xsl:text 
> disable-output-escaping="yes">"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;</xsl:text>
> 
> Can anyone advise on a cleaner way to do this using XSLT 2?
> 
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