Re: [xsl] How does one convert an RTF to a string?

[Kenneth Stephen <marvin.the.cynical.robot@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/9/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>

> I note in your example you used disable-output-escaping use of that is
> always always a sign that somethng is wrong. Here it looks very odd
> You disable the normal XML serialisation by using value-of and d-o-e
> which means thatyou have to serialise everything by hand.
>
> Why not just let the system use its normal XML serialisation, by just
> copying the original rtf  variable to the result tree???
>
>
>                 <xsl:variable name="rtf">
>                                 <node>
>                                         <!-- Here is a comment -->
>
>                                         <child attrib="something"
>value</child>
>                                 </node>
>                 </xsl:variable>
>
>                 <xsl:variable name="tmpStr">
>                 <xsl:apply-templates select="xalan:nodeset($rtf)"
> mode="convert" />
>                </xsl:variable>
>
>                 <xsl:copy-of select="rtf" />
>

David,

    What I was originally trying to do indeed used xsl:copy-of.
However, when doing :

<xsl:message><xsl:copy-of select="$rtf"></xsl:message>

    ....all I got was "value" in the message. Thats why I'm trying to
fit the RTF into a string format.

Thanks,
Kenneth