RE: [xsl] Mal-formed HTML within XML

Subject: RE: [xsl] Mal-formed HTML within XML
From: Maria Amuchastegui <mamuchastegui@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 17:58:06 -0500
How do I use disable-output-escaping in conjunction with CDATA?

I tried this but it didn't work:

<Html><xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
<![CDATA[
<p>This is the Summary section.
]]>
</xsl:text>
</Html>

Maria

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 20/02/05 5:31 PM
Subject: RE: [xsl] Mal-formed HTML within XML

> For historical reasons, I need to store mal-formed html 
> within my xml data,
> and then output it as html, without the tags showing.

Two possible solutions:

(a) use the tidy utility to make the HTML well-formed

(b) use disable-output-escaping to serialize the CDATA content without
escaping the angle brackets.

Usual caveats about d-o-e apply, but this is the use case that justifies
its
inclusion in the spec.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> 
> <Content>
> 	<Section ref="2">
> 		<Name>Summary</Name>
> 		<HTML><p>Hello world&nbsp;</HTML>
> 	</Section>
> <Content>
> 
> If I put the html inside CDATA tags, then the tags are 
> displayed in the
> browser, but if I don't use CDATA then the xml is not well-formed.
> 
> Is there a way to do this?
> 
> Maria

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