Outputting entity references in XUL attributes with XSL

[Paquette.Jim]

Hello,

I'm trying to get XUL output with an element that has an attribute
containing an entity reference. Can this be done? I saw another post
exactly like this...but the solutions they gave didn't work for me.

[-------------XML------------]

<contextMenu>
<building />
<contact/>
<company/>
</contextMenu>

[-----------XSL---------------]
...
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"
indent="yes"/>
....
<xsl:template match="contextMenu">
<menuitem>
<xsl:attribute name="label" disable-output-escaping="yes">
&amp;context.add.<xsl:value-of select="name()" class="text" />;
</xsl:attribute>
</menuitem>
<xsl:template>

<building />
<contact/>
<company/>
</contextMenu>

[-----------expected XUL---------------]
...
<menuitem label="&context.add.building;">
<menuitem label="&context.add.contact;">
<menuitem label="&context.add.company;">

[-----------actual XUL---------------]
...
<menuitem label="&amp;context.add.building;">
<menuitem label="&amp;context.add.contact;">
<menuitem label="&amp;context.add.company;">

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Paquette.Jim wrote:

> I'm trying to get XUL output with an element that has an attribute
> containing an entity reference. Can this be done? I saw another post
> exactly like this...but the solutions they gave didn't work for me.

> <xsl:attribute name="label" disable-output-escaping="yes">

> &amp;context.add.<xsl:value-of select="name()" class="text" />;
> </xsl:attribute>

Unfortunately disable-output-escaping doesn't work on attributes:

"It is an error for output escaping to be disabled for a text node that
is used for something other than a text node in the result tree. Thus,
it is an error to disable output escaping for an xsl:value-of or
xsl:text element that is used to generate the string-value of a comment,
processing instruction or attribute node;"

You can do this with XSLT 2.0, can you use XSLT 2.0?

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
http://blog.tkachenko.com | http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://www.XLinq.Net

[Paquette.Jim]

I'm doing this using xulrunner 1.8.0.x which uses the same engine as
firefox 1.5. Unfortunately, it doesn't support XSLT 2. Any other
ideas?

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Paquette.Jim wrote:
> I'm doing this using xulrunner 1.8.0.x which uses the same engine as
> firefox 1.5. Unfortunately, it doesn't support XSLT 2. Any other
> ideas?

Then your only option probably is to build XML element entirely as text.
Something crazy like this:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;menuitem
label="&amp;context.add.</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
<xsl:text>;"></xsl:text>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;/menuitem></xsl:text>