Re: [xsl] UBB Code and XSLT

["J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>]

Karl J. Stubsjoen wrote:
> Mix of text and UBB code within CDATA
> ==transform UBB with XSLT==
> Result is HTML
>
> Example of XML:
> <x>
>      <y><![CDATA[This is an [b]EXAMPLE[/b]]]></y>
> </x>
>
> HTML Result:
>   This is an <b>EXAMPLE</b>

Again, that's not too difficult with an S&R template. (BTW
in this case, the CDATA is redundant).
Problems arise for text like
  This is [ an [ill/formed] [b=http://stuff:]EXAMPLE[/u]]
Note that the brackets are even balanced :-)
Building a parser which gets well formed XHTML out of this
isn't easy whether in XSLT or any other language. In XSLT
it will additionally take a lot of source code lines and is
likely to be slow too.

J.Pietschmann

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