Re: [xsl] Unescaping CDATA and turning it into a variable?

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

On 12.06.2019 16:51, rus tle profrustyleafiii@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> Given a node such as this...
>
> <Fragment>
> <![CDATA[This is some<spanclass="meta"cid="0b>cheese</span> and
> <spanclass="meta"cid="1b>chocolate</span>!]]>
> </Fragment>
>
> If I use disable-output-escaping:
>
> <xsl:value-ofdisable-output-escaping="yes"select=bFragment/text()"/>
>
> It renders withB the "markup":
>
> I love <spanclass="meta"cid="0b>cheese</span>B and
> <spanclass="meta"cid="1b>chocolate</span>!</td>
>
> Which is great. Happy.
>
> But I need to target the spans and the span content and use it elsewhere
> in the stylesheet. Is it possible to extract the text with bmarkupb as
a
> variable or a parameter so I can re-use it before rendering?
>
> Ideally I would have something likeb&
>
> <xsl:variablename="markup">
> <xsl:value-ofselect="$FRAGMENT"disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
> </xsl:variable>

In XSLT 3 you can use
  <xsl:variable name="markup" select="parse-xml-fragment(Fragment)"/>
to have the variable bound to the result of parsing the string value of
the Fragment element as an XML fragment.

Then you can use XPath or apply-templates, as with any nodes.