Re: [xsl] copy-of problem...

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2003-07-14 11:26 +0100, David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Given XML input of the form
>
> <description>HereâEUR$(1s (Ba Google search for a famous phrase, &lt;a
> href="http://www.google.com/search?q=to+be+or+not+to+be";>to be or not to
> be&lt;/a>; give it a try and see what happens.
> .... </description>
>
> 1. its utf-8 encoded.
> 2. The output is to be html.
>
> I can't figure out the template for description
>  element (or the output method?)
> that will provide me with an a element and an href attribute
> as if were normally marked up content.

Isn't this the classical justification for disable-output-escaping?

> copy-of - which I guessed would work (wrongly)

You don't want the *structure* of your input to be copied, though.  And 
your input HTML is flat next, not markup.

> value-of
>
> both put out escaped content...

You want the output escaping to be disabled.

My understanding is that disable-output-escaping= was created to 
accommodate database blobs of HTML that might be serialized wrapped in XML 
and emitted without the escaping of the content ... which looks like what 
you are trying to do.

I hope this helps.

....................... Ken


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