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Naveen
Naveen

Reputation: 35

disable-output-escaping=yes is not working in the below case

I have below sample xml `

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TDX>
<AddressData>
    <AddressDetail>
<Address FieldName="ReceiverAddress1" FieldValue="CNR TOORONG &amp; TOORAK RD"/>
    </AddressDetail>    
</AddressData>
</TDX>

And the XSLT that transforms this xml into desired format. I have taken a single node here 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <ConNotes>
      <ConNote>
        <ReceiverAddress1>
          <xsl:value-of  disable-output-escaping="yes" select="TDX/AddressData/AddressDetail/Address[@FieldName='ReceiverAddress1']/@FieldValue"/>
        </ReceiverAddress1>
      </ConNote>
    </ConNotes>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Whenever I try to transform the XML using xslt I get the error "Whitespace is not allowed at this location". I have figured it out that this error is due to the special character & present in the FieldValue attribute of address node.
I have tried disable-output-escpaing="yes" but it's not working as expected.
I have used "output method="xml"" in the XSLT file.
Please help me with this. I am using XML notepad for applying the transformation. I am expecting the output xml like this: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
- <ConNotes>
- <ConNote>
  <ReceiverAddress1>CNR TOORONG & TOORAK RD</ReceiverAddress1> 
  </ConNote>
  </ConNotes>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1246

Answers (1)

wero
wero

Reputation: 32980

When you use disable-output-escaping="yes" then the ampersand & in the output is not escaped as entity &amp;. The output is then not a well-formed XML document. When you open the result XML in IE you will get the "Whitespace..." error.

The fix is trivial: Just remove the disable-output-escaping="yes" and the output will be well-formed:

<ConNotes>
<ConNote>
<ReceiverAddress1>CNR TOORONG &amp; TOORAK RD</ReceiverAddress1> 
</ConNote>
</ConNotes>

Upvotes: 1

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