examples ruin ampersands

[sydb]

[I thought I had already submitted a ticket on this, but can’t find it.]

The content of an <egXML> is messed with such that it is impossible (as far as I can tell) to have an appropriately escaped string on output. That is, (as far as I can tell) there is no input one can use within an <egXML> element in an ODD file that will generate the following output.

<sch:assert test="count( tei:author ) gt 4">No more than four &lt;author> elements allowed</sch:assert>

I have tried at least the following inputs, all to no avail.

No more than four <author> elements allowed

No more than four <author> elements allowed

No more than four &author> elements allowed

No more than four &author> elements allowed

No more than four <![CDATA[&lt;]]>author> elements allowed

My instinct is that the template "verbatim-Text" in file common/verbatim.xsl (and all calls to it) should simply be eliminated. The problem would then be we would need to go through existing <egXML> elements to see if any needed updating to match. Also this would be a backward-incompatible change that a user might complain about, so we would want to announce this change loudly well ahead of doing it, I guess.