262466 - escaping ampersand in xsl

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 98168

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Bandy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

Ampersand (& amp; or & #38;) are not properly parsed/escaped inside the xsl:text
tag when disable-output-escaping="yes".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create an XML stylesheet to output html
2. Place an (& amp;) inside an xsl:text with disable-output-escaping="yes"

Actual Results:  
Text is interpreted the same with output-escaping disabled as with it enabled.

Expected Results:  
With output-escaping disabled the ampersand should be treated as HTML source,
not text.

Reproducible on Linux:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040926 Firefox/0.10

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98168 ***

Comment 2

[Chris Bandy]

Reading bug 98168 provided enough information to resolve this issue.

Displaying HTML special chars (like ampersand, infinity, etc.) should be done
with numeric codes instead of the "friendly" code.

To properly output the infinity symbol in my XSL I used ∞ instead of ∞