Subject: Re: [xsl] applying templates to attribute value From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:30:17 +0100 |
Wendell > Actually, as Ken said, to write the attribute value you should use > xsl:value-of. xsl:apply-templates should not work: if it does, your > processor is not being conformant, and your code will break in > another processor. actually the default template for attributes does the same as value-of in this case. > Sometimes they bend the rules and introduce some > sort of structure into attribute values, but when they do, it's > always simple enough to parse easily (for example tokenized values, > or maybe tokenized values with labels), since this generally has to > be done in the application not by the XML parser. Of course it is possible to parse reasonably complicated "quoted html in attributes" just using xslt if you want to avoid extension functions. Just bash the attribute value with enough regular expressions and generate some element nodes... (see htmlparse.xsl for some examples of this). David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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