Article:		XSLT Web Service Clients
Subject:		error using xsltproc
Date:		2004-12-08 03:13:54
From:		gryphyn59
When I try to run the example using xsltproc I get the following error D:\home\xml>xsltproc test.xsl expenses.xml test.xsl:13: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';' <xsl:text>&ToCurrency=USD</xsl:text> ^ cannot parse test.xsl What newbie snafu have I committed?

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• error using xsltproc
  2004-12-08 06:11:47 Bob DuCharme [Reply]
  
  Actually, the mistake is mine, and XML.com made another in preparing the article for publication that prevents the stylesheet from being run.

  
  My mistake: my stylesheet had &ToCurrency=USD as the value of the xsl:text element but when I put that into the HTML of the article I should have escaped it as & so that browsers displayed it as &.

  
  Their mistake: the first xsl:text element in the conversionURL template rule should not have a line break in it, because URLs shouldn't have line breaks in them. Take that out and it should work fine.

  
  Bob
  
  

  • error using xsltproc
    2004-12-08 06:15:31 Bob DuCharme [Reply]
    
    OK, I made the same mistake in my posting above--not escaping enough. I've revised the key sentence about my mistake:

    
    My stylesheet had &ToCurrency=USD as the value of the xsl:text element but when I put that into the HTML of the article I should have escaped it as & so that browsers displayed it as &.