Subject: Re: [xsl] Unescaped CDATA? From: Jan Eden <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:22:51 +0100 |
Hi, G. Ken Holman wrote on 17.12.2005: >At 2005-12-17 23:33 +0100, Jan Eden wrote: >>I use a Python script to build XML files out of database records. >>Within these records, a certain field contains (not necessarily >>well-formed) HTML. >> >>I need my XSLT processor to skip this data when transforming the >>document to an HTML document. So I thought it would be a great idea >>to enclose the data in a CDATA section: > >That is not just a great idea, it is required. > >><content> >><![CDATA[ (malformed HTML here) >>]]> >></content> >> >>This works - but the tags within the CDATA section are escaped to >>literal <p>, <i> etc. > >Right ... because they have to be in the XML. > >>So the browser displays >> >><i>Serapions-Br|der</i> >> >>instead of the italic text Serapions-Br|der. > >Right ... because if you just put out the text value then >markup-sensitive characters must be escaped. > >>How can I >> >>a) keep the XSLT processor from choking at the malformed HTML and >>b) leave the tags within the HTML unescaped? > >Do what you are doing so far for capturing your HTML tag soup, but >change the way it is delivered to the output by turning off the >escaping of the markup-sensitive characters: > ><xsl:value-of select="content" disable-output-escaping="yes"/> > >Your situation is the use-case for the XSLT disable-output-escaping= >feature of result tree building ... however, processors are *not* >required to support this feature (but most (all?) do). Thanks, Ken and David! I knew about disable-output-escaping, but in the tutorial I use, the feature is restrcited to <xsl:text>. Cheers, Jan -- A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder
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