Re: [xsl] Turning escaped HTML back to markup

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Paul Spencer wrote:
> I am exporting an Access 2003 database as XML. Some of the fields should
> contain HTML, but the XML export from Access seems to escape the angle
> brackets. So three questions:
>
> 1. Has anyone successfully got HTML into and out of an Access 2003 database?
>
> 2. Alternatively, I write a recursive template using lots of substring-xxx
> and xsl:element. Not too difficult, but if anyone knows of a suitable
> template available to use, that would save some time.
>
> 3. Or have I missed something?

Assuming your stylesheet wants to output HTML then 
disable-output-escaping helps, as long as the processor supports it:
  <xsl:value-of select="foo" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

Assuming the escaped markup is well-formed XML  (which unfortunately 
HTML often is not) then you can try to parse it with an extension 
function like saxon:parse
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/extensions/functions/parse.html

Today's thread "fault tolerant saxon:parse" also suggests you can parse 
HTML tag soup by pluggin in the TagSoup parser.


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