Re: [Announce] Escaping double quotation marks in XSL

[email protected] Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:58:11 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.general
Message-ID <OFA57DFFE7.0C560578-ON8525737E.0057838B-8525737E.0057B96E__40001.6159787357$1193242050$gmane$org@lotus.com>
> Assuming that you are only interested in stream serialization, have you
> thought of doing the serialization yourself for particular elements?  For
> example, something like this:
>
> <!-- self serialization of image elements with tag for image done in
> CDATA,
but delegate attributes serialization -->
> <xsl:template match="image">
>  <![CDATA[ <image]>><xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/> <![CDATA[ >]>>
> </xsl:template>

I *REALLY* detest that idiom. I've seen many people hurt themselves by
trying to hand-generate XML; I consider it a very bad practice. Unless
you're forced to do it in order to work with a downstream tool which has
not been implemented correctly, I would recommend finding another solution.
Any other solution.