Re: [xsl] store and output source-code-listings

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

jm wrote:
> can anybody give me a hint, how I can store code-listings (java, c++, ....)
> in my xml-file and put it out as html with XSLT?
> 
> It's just for showing some code-chunks on the website.
> 
> I tried to use <![CDATA[  ... code in here ]> but this doesn't work properly.
> I even need do recognize LF to format the output.

You can use CDATA sections in the XML, that's fine. Or you can replace all the
"<" with "&lt;" and "&" with "&amp;", which is all a CDATA section saves you
from having to do...

<code><![CDATA[

   text and <tags> & stuff

]]></code>

is the same as

<code>

   text and &lt;tags> &amp; stuff

</code>

Make sure you have <xsl:output method="html"/>, and copy the parsed
text through...

<xsl:template match="code">
  <pre>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </pre>
</xsl:template>


Your HTML output will have

<pre>

    text and &lt;tags> &amp; stuff

</pre>


The fact that it's in a <pre> will cause whitespace to be preserved when it is
rendered by the HTML user agent. The "&lt;" and "&amp;" are how the HTML
serializer in the XSLT processor decided to output the "<" and "&" in the
parsed data, in order to conform to HTML syntax. It will be parsed by the HTML
browser just like it would in XML, so you'll get "<" in the rendering, don't
worry. Fine-tune the rendering with CSS. No need to get fancy with replacing
linefeeds with <br>s since <pre> does all the work for you.

Mike

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