Cheers,
Marc S

It looks like I’ve determined the cause of the original problem, the formatting of the text. When I converted the list view to XSLT Data View, the dvt_1.rowview template formatted the xsl:value-of element as follows:

After going through your xsl series, it looks to me like this xsl is converting a plain text string twice and running into issues. After removing the ddwrt function from the xsl:value-of statement the output is formatted correctly.

I haven’t solved the ‘Access is denied’ error with the import function, but at least for now my users can read the columns correctly.
Thanks for your help and this informative series.
Marc

M.

Thanks for your response.

I forgot to mention in my post that the funny thing was that the disable-output-escaping=”yes” attribute didn’t completely fix up the data. It changed the “' ” into “'” and “"” into “"”. That’s why I figured that the xsl template would help.

(Also, I noticed that in the original post that even it renders the data correctly! Irony. Not sure if this post will do the same so just to clarify &_amp;#39; goes to &_#39; with the disable-output-escaping=”yes”, without the underscores.)

I’m pretty sure the permissions are good, as there are a few jquery scripts located in the same centre I’m using that work well. It must be something to do with the wrapper. Seeing that i’m not sure what the wrapper should contain? I must read your entire series before continuing to troubleshoot on monday.

Thanks again, Marc

Well, it sounds like a permissions error. Are you able to access other files in the Scripting Resource Centre from the same DVWP? Do you have the appropriate “wrapper” around the template(s) in the CleanUp_EscapeChars.xsl file?

Those questions aside, the solution may be just to add the disable-output-escaping=”yes” attribute to the xsl:select. Check the Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags – Part 11: xsl:value-of installment in this series for details.

M.

I’ve come across your post and think it might be able to help me out. I’ve converted a list view into its xslt data view to apply some conditional formatting, etc. and now some of the list data is not displaying correctly. I’m getting some ' and " elements in my data instead of the proper apostrophes and quotes.

I’ve tried importing your xsl FixEscapedChars template into my page but I’m getting the following error:

Failed setting processor stylesheet : 0×80004005 : Access is denied. Error occurred during compilation of included or imported stylesheet ‘http://mysite/SSRC/CleanUp_EscapeChars.xsl

I’ve put the template in my Scripting Resource Centre, so I think the permissions there should be alright. Any Ideas?

Thanks,
Marc

Thanks,
M.

I am facing an issue with DataViewWebPart when i customize the XSLT of the webpart , i am not able to export all the cloumns of the webpart. I just get two columns in the excel namely ItemType and Path. I have ten columns. Is there a solution for the same.

Thanks,
KK

Yes, I’m winding down on this. Given the title of the series (Unlocking the Mysteries of Data View Web Part XSL Tags), I’ve covered most of what I can about the XSL tags, plus quite a few other things. Of course there’s lots more fun with DVWPs that I can talk about, as you suggest.

M.

Can we maybe see some advanced topics like aggregate data sources and how to reference them in the XSL. You touched on it a tiny bit but it would be great to know in detail how to do it.

Also, it may not strictly fit into the XSL category but a detailed article on CAML query would be great.

Just some thoughts.