Re: [xsl] Transforming an XML structure into a string

[Ben Senior <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a solution which works ... but can it be done more elegantly?

<xsl:template match="*" mode="entities">&lt;<xsl:value-of 
select="name()"/><xsl:for-each select="@*">&#160;<xsl:value-of 
select="name()"/>="<xsl:value-of 
select="."/>"</xsl:for-each>&gt;<xsl:apply-templates mode="entities"/>
</xsl:template>

Ben Senior wrote:

> *bang* *bang* *bang* goes my head against the desk.
>
> We are passing a fragment of XML into a template as a param.
>
> In this case the XML fragments look something like : <call 
> function="analogous">base_colour=<value 
> target_id="base_colour"/>,choice=1</call>
>
> We are aiming to store this string in the value attribute of a html 
> hidden input form so we would like to map all angular brackets to 
> their &lt; &gt; equivalents, and & to &amp; etc.
>
> String functions like translate or substring work on the text node 
> parts (like "base_colour=" and "choice=1") but do not process the 
> nodes like <call or <value.
>
> Can we do a "toString" on this XML fragment or are we approaching this 
> the wrong way around...
>
> Many thanks for you time,
>
> B&A