[xquery-talk] Stop Conversion of Character Entities
Betty Harvey
harvey at eccnet.com
Tue Feb 21 11:58:43 PST 2012
Yes I did and it outputs "
" which isn't recognizable as an
character entity.
I have tried just about every trick I can think of with no success.
Betty
> Did you try outputting " " ?
>
> On 02/21/2012 02:41 PM, Betty Harvey wrote:
>> How can you tell XQuery to output the character entity and not the
>> actual
>> character.
>>
>> I am creating an Excel spreadsheet and am trying to put linefeeds into a
>> single cell. I do this all the time with XSLT conversions.
>>
>> Using the
character in the XQuery puts a linefeed into the text. I
>> want to output the
. Excel needs this character entity on import in
>> order to create linefeeds. The binary linefeed in the XML doesn't work
>> for Excel.
>>
>> I have tried:
>>
>> let $newline := fn:string("$#10;") and xs:string
>>
>> Tried to trick it!
>>
>> let $newline := fn:concat("&", "#10;")
>>
>>
>> This is easy to do in XSLT (disable-output-escaping="yes") but have
>> searched and haven't been able to find an equivalent mechanism in
>> XQuery.
>>
>> TIA!
>>
>> Betty
>>
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