Subject: Re: [xsl] Convert mutiple escaped items from xml to HTML From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:38:16 +0100 |
Hi Sun-fu, > I have a xml with a series of escaped items shown in a text node and > want to convert them into the html tag. In effect, you are asking how to write an HTML parser in XSLT. As you might expect, in a language that isn't particularly good at string manipulation, it's not going to be easy. Someone with a computer science background might be able to help with approaches to doing it. In your situation, I would use disable-output-escaping - you would save yourself a lot of work if you just did: <xsl:value-of select="Comment" disable-output-escaping="yes" /> In the example that you gave: > <Comment>This is an example.<br /> & you can find more > information in <a href="http://www.dot.com"> dot.com > </a> <br /></Comment> the unescaped version of the content of Comment is unfortunately not well-formed XHTML, nor even well-formed HTML. Unescaped, it is: This is an example.<br /> & you can find more information in <a href="http://www.dot.com"> dot.com </a> <br /> As you know, & characters have to be escaped in (X)HTML. So if they're not double-escaped in your source XML, i.e. like: <Comment>This is an example.<br /> &amp; you can find more information in <a href="http://www.dot.com"> dot.com </a> <br /></Comment> then you should first run the value of Comment through a replacing template to change all the '&' characters into the string '&', before giving its value with output escaping disabled. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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