[jdom-interest] Re: Off Topic - XSL (Xalan) question

Tue Sep 19 02:50:15 PDT 2000

jdom-interest-request at jdom.org wrote:

>
> From: "Van Dooren, Damian" <VanDoorenD at icfg.com>
> To: "JDOM (E-mail)" <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:43:32 -0400
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Subject: [jdom-interest] Off Topic - XSL (Xalan) question
>
> ...
>
> org.apache.xalan.xslt.XSLProcessorException: The reference to entity
> "subaction"  must end with the ';' delimiter.
>
> This is the line it is dying on:
>
> <a
> href='http://localhost/login/ActionServer?action=loadpage&subaction=html&fil
> eName=client-inquiry.html'>Client Inquiry</a>
>
> I've included the XSL and have commented out the offending line. If someone
> could point out what I've done wrong I would greatly appreciated it.
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                 version="1.0"
> >
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     <html>
>       <head><title>Main Menu</title></head>
>
>       <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
>         <h2>Main Menu</h2>
>         <p>
> <!-- Why doesn't it like this line?
>         <a
> href='http://localhost/login/ActionServer?action=loadpage&subaction=html&fil
> eName=client-inquiry.html'>Client Inquiry</a>
> -->
>         </p>
>       </body>
>     </html>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Hi Damian,

    The parameter separator in the URL is being interpreted as an entity
reference open; an XML parser sees '&subaction' and says where is the
entity reference close (';').

    You need to escape the '&'s using '&amp;'s as follows (line wrapped by me):

href='http://localhost/login/ActionServer?action=loadpage&amp;
subaction=html&amp;fileName=client-inquiry.html'>

Regards,
    Aidan Killian