How to handle special characters (&, ) inside XSLT

Legacy Contributor

Hi,

I am getting .csv pipe separated file as input and I am converting it to a XML using flat file template. Then I am doing some transformation inside XSLT mapper. But some characters inside .csv file contains &, <, >. Therefore right after the input file came to the XSLT mapper it is giving an error.

I believe that we need to handle special characters from .csv file level.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Maxime Richard

Hello,

 

As these chars are forbiden in XML, ION does the conversion for you when it creates the customBOD. For example, the .csv file below becomes this in OneView :

 

From there you can manipulate your data in your XSLT stylesheet. Whenever you need to convert these chars to the original format, use  disable-output-escaping="yes" in your xsl:value-of statement.

 

Something like this :