Question

could please someone tell me why ‘disable-output-escaping’ attribute takes no effect in the following piece of XSL template?

<INPUT type="text">
  <xsl:attribute name="value" >
    <xsl:value-of select="$query"  disable-output-escaping = "yes" />
  </xsl:attribute>
</INPUT>

I would like to see an unescaped value within the ‘input’ element.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

why ‘disable-output-escaping’ attribute takes no effect in the
following piece of XSL template?

  <xsl:attribute name="value" >
    <xsl:value-of select="$query"  disable-output-escaping = "yes"

/>

D-O-E has effect only for text nodes — not for attributes.

If the output method is xml, then an XSLT processor must output a well-formed XML document and then it is mandatory to escape special characters in any attribute value.

You may try specifying:

<xsl:output method="html"/>

However, bear in mind that D-O-E is not a mandatory feature of XSLT at all and some XSLT processors don’t implement D-O-E. Therefore, you may need to enter the wanted value manually (and maybe use the “text” output method).