RE: [xsl] xml to html paragraphing

Subject: RE: [xsl] xml to html paragraphing
From: "Chris Bayes" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:46:06 +0100
David,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<doc>
	<text>
	<![CDATA[
	<p>
	 para 1
	</p>
	<p>
	 para 2
	<!--No closing P-->
	]]>
	</text>
</doc>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="doc">
<html>
<body>
	<xsl:apply-templates />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text">
	<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="." />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Ciao Chris


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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Pinch, David
>Sent: 29 March 2001 20:37
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [xsl] xml to html paragraphing
>
>
>
>David Carlisle [davidc@xxxxxxxxx] said:
>
>> You could probably just have used the
>> disable-output-encoding attribute
>> in XSLT to save using javascript, but this is
>> only a last resort when it
>> isn't possible to fix the source not to
>> have CDATA sections.
>
>I am fetching the user-submitted HTML for display on a web page.  The XSLT
>is generating surrounding elements (e.g., a navigation bar) in addition to
>the user HTML.  I have no guarantee that the user entered well-formed HTML,
>and I don't trust Microsoft's DOM.  I'd rather have a forgiving-browser
>display poorly-formed HTML, than have the entire XSL sheet abort and lose
>the page.
>
>Of course, the JavaScript hack isn't exactly the fastest possible approach
>-- lots of string processing depending on the technique.  And it's probably
>dependent on Internet Explorer (ulg).  Worse comes to worse, I could always
>generate the HTML at the server (e.g., in ASP or JSP) and submit
>it directly
>to the HTTP stream.  But for some reason I like the pure-XSLT approach with
>the web server only acting as a document server.
>
>Thanks for the reply.
>
>
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