How to represent '&' as a variable in xslt file

[ofuuzo1]

Hi,

I have tried the following but it do not work:

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="string('&')"/>
<xsl:variable name="path1" select="string('&')"/>
<xsl:variable name="path1" select="&"/>

Thanks in advance
Ofuuzo

 

[Martin Honnen]

I have tried the following but it do not work:

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="string('&')"/>

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="'&amp;'"/>

 

[Joseph J. Kesselman]

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="'&amp;'"/>

That should be equivalent to select="'&'", of course.

(The trick here is the double-quoting. Select is interpreted as an
XPath... and the XPath syntax wants its own layer of quotes to indicate
that you're trying to express a literal value.)

 

[Richard Tobin]

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="string('&')"/>
<xsl:variable name="path1" select="&"/>

Those won't work because they're not well-formed XML.

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="string('&')"/>

That should work: what error do you get?

The simplest solution is

<xsl:variable name="path1" select="'&'"/>

-- Richard