Re: [xsl] Text markup for web forums, eg. [b]bold text[/b]

Subject: Re: [xsl] Text markup for web forums, eg. [b]bold text[/b]
From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 02:47:31 -0600
Sometimes the most obvious solutions are the ones that get overlooked. Although you would obviously have to process this further for tags like [QUOTE] and [email]. But once the conversion to XML has taken place thats obviously not an issue.

Give me a sec to update the code and Ill repost a much more elegant solution.

Thanks George!

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----- Original Message ----- From: "George Cristian Bina" <george@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:36 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Text markup for web forums, eg. [b]bold text[/b]



Hi,

Just an idea, I do not know if that helps, but...
you can translate the [] in <> and after this you should have well formed XML and process it as you like with another stylesheet:


<text>
<value>Text may contain <b>bold text</b>, <i>italics</i> or both
<b><i>bold and italics</i></b>.</value>
</text>


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:text>&lt;processedValue&gt;</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="translate(text/value, '[]', '&lt;>')"/>
<xsl:text>&lt;/processedValue&gt;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>



<processedValue>Text may contain <b>bold text</b>, <i>italics</i> or both <b><i>bold and italics</i></b>.</processedValue>



Best Regards, George ----------------------------------------------- George Cristian Bina <oXygen/> XML Editor & XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com


Daniel Joshua wrote:
I was reading through this, gave me some ideas.

Except that it does not handle nested "markup" like my input (below).


XML (input):

<text>
  <value>Text may contain [b]bold text[/b], [i]italics[/i] or both
[b][i]bold and italics[/i][/b].</value>
</text>
>> [...]

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