XSLT : Problem using xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"

Question

Hello,
I have some problem using "disable-output-escaping" attribute of xsl:value-of() function.
I have a table SONGS with two columns XML and XSL filled with :
<song>
  <title>Isn't she lovely?</title>
</song>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8"></xsl:output>
  <xsl:template match="//song">
    <out>
      <xsl:value-of select="title" disable-output-escaping="yes"></xsl:value-of>
    </out>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>The query to transform XML with XSL :
SELECT XMLTRANSFORM (xml, xsl)  FROM songs;I get this XML :
<out>Isn&apos;t she lovely?</out>but I want that (without the '&amp;' special character) :
<out>Isn't she lovely?</out>How can I procees to succeed ?
Thanks,
Dominique

Answer 1

What DB version?
The following SQL
select xmltransform(XMLTYPE('<song>
  <title>Isn''t she lovely?</title>
</song>'), XMLTYPE('<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8"></xsl:output>
  <xsl:template match="//song">
    <out>
      <xsl:value-of select="title" disable-output-escaping="yes"></xsl:value-of>
    </out>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>'))
  from dual;produces this on 11.1.0.6
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<out>Isn't she lovely?</out>and this on 10.2.0.4
<out>Isn&apos;t she lovely?</out>I found a couple of previous discussions regarding this at
{thread:id=679397}
{thread:id=879301}
The last discussion provides a workaround if you need it.