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1. using a html entity in xslt (e.g.  )    stackoverflow.com

what is the best way to include a htlm entity in XSLT?

<xsl:template match="/a/node">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    <xsl:text>&nbsp;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

2. UTF8, ISO-8859-x or 7-bit ASCII and entities    stackoverflow.com

What's your opinion on encoding accented and special characters in XHTML and XML.

• Do you convert each and every non-US-ASCII character to named entity?
• You use ISO-8859-x or Win-125x and encode to ...

3. How do I replace quotes in XSLT with their HTML entities?    stackoverflow.com

This is related to my previous question -" Manipulate the output of <xsl:apply-templates>". I want to ask about the specific problem I am looking to address. How do I replace quotes in ...

4. XSLT and XQuery on invalid html input, pieces of URI look like entities    stackoverflow.com

I'm using Saxon 9 to analyze invalid html sources. Specifically the html has href values like the following: <a href="blah.asp?fn=view&g_varID=1234">some text</a> I'm getting errors: "Error reported by XML parser: The reference to entity "g_varID" ...

5. html 4.0 entities in XPATH queries    stackoverflow.com

I don't know exactly why the xpath expression:

//h3[text()='Foo › Bar']

<h3>Foo &rsaquo; Bar</h3>

6. Leave entity intact in XML + XSLT    stackoverflow.com

I transform XML to (sort of) HTML with XSL stylesheets (using Apache Xalan). In XML there can be entities like —, which must be left as is. In beginning of XML ...

7. XML allows for external entities; what about XHTML?    stackoverflow.com

This question about web page 'inclusion' triggered my curiosity. The XML allows you to specify a reference to an 'external' portion. Can you do the same in XHTML, ...

8. Insert html-entities in xslt    stackoverflow.com

I have some XMLs that contain character hex codes, e.g. it like this: <char hex="AB"/> Now I want to xslt transform for display in the browser: <xsl:value-of select="concat('&amp;#x', /char/@hex, ';', '')"/> However, the output in ...

9. XUL / XML Parsing Error: undefined entity     stackoverflow.com

Does anybody know why this error is poping up ?

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://onsip/content/options/options.css"?>

<!DOCTYPE dialog SYSTEM "chrome://onsip/locale/options.dtd">

<dialog xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"
        id="onsip-options-dialog"
        ...

10. How to display XML source code using HTML with Emacs?    stackoverflow.com

In the HTML file, I need to show some XML code. The problem is that I can't use

<pre>..</pre> 

11. XSLT not copying the value of a HTML entity    stackoverflow.com

I have the following xml code:

<p>
    <media id="pc300220-scpwr.gif" print-rights="no"
        rights="licensed" type="photo">
        <title>Louis Pasteur</title>
  ...

12. What is the difference between   and  ?    stackoverflow.com

I have written one XSLT to transform xml to html. If input xml node contains only space then it inserts the space using following code.

<xsl:text>&#xa0;</xsl:text>

13. Can I escape HTML entities in XML so that they are displayed literally on a web page?    stackoverflow.com

I have an XML descriptor file containing attribute specifications such as:

<attribute
  name="abc"
  description="xyz e.g. &lt;br&gt; with a new line">
...
</attribute>

14. Unescaping HTML entities with XSLT    stackoverflow.com

I have external script result in my XSL template, contains escaped html special characters. How I can unescape it with XSLT and output it to final document? I have already escaped result, ...