Re: [xsl] HTML and <

[Alan Gardner <scipiomedia@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the FAQs. Things are working smoothly once again.

Alan

On 5/20/03 10:32 AM, "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> This is a FAQ.
> 
>> I've got an RSS feed that uses html special character tags such as the &lt;
>> and &gt; but Xalan converts those symbols to <>,
> 
> It isn't xalan that is doing that, it is the XML parser, as &lt; _means_
> a less than character. if you want a tag then the input is supposed to
> have a <.
> 
>> My output method is set to HTML, but how do I get these tags to render as
>> html, rather than text?
> 
> If you can fix your input then it is best to _have_ tags in the input ie
> <p> rather than &lt;p&gt; which is not a tag at all.
> 
> Failing that you need to parse the string using an xml (or html) parser,
> some systems may have extension functions to do that,
> 
> or as a last resort, if you are in a situation where
> disable-output-escaping works you could use
> <xsl-value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="."/>
> but use if the last option is almost always a sign that something else
> is wrong earlier in the processing.
> 
> David
> 
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