Re: [xsl] Including markup in a replace string

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06.10.2016 15:09, Craig Sampson craig.sampson@xxxxxxx wrote:

>   I have code examples in some doc that are post processed in AngularJS.
> In some cases the code examples include {{ or }} which is
> significant to Angular. I have a simple replace that I am using to wrap
> a no-process span around the curly braces so the Angular process will
> ignore them.
>
>
>
>   *<**xsl:value-of **select*=/"replace(.,'(\{\{|\}\})','&lt;span
> class=&quot;noProcess&quot;&gt;$1&lt;/span&gt;')"/*/>*
>
>
>
>   The only problem is that the character entity is being output as a
> character entity instead of less-than and greater-than characters.

replace returns a string, node nodes.

>   Is there a way to trick replace into outputting the less-than and
> greater-than characters?

Depending on the XSLT processor and the context using
  <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="..."/>
is a hack that can help, but


>   So unless theres a way to trick replace Ill have to try
> analyze-string and see if I can get what I need there.

using analyze-string is certainly a cleaner way in XSLT 2.0 or 3.0.