Subject: Re: [xsl] Converting a string to a node set From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:55:05 GMT |
I have a dataset containing CDATA blocks which actualy contains XML data. grr. what's XML doing scrunched up in a CDATA block:-) The "correct" solution is to fix the source not to quote the XML (not always possible due to politics, I accept). I would like to be able to take the CDATA node and convert it to a node set within a XSL processor, is there anyway of doing this in the XSL standard? Short answer, no. Longer answer, depends what you want to do, if you don't really need a node set but just want to copy the markup to your result tree, then using <xsl:vlaue-of disable-output-encoding="yes" select="whatever"/> might work if your processor looks favourably on you and decides to honour disable-output-encoding. If you really want to get a node set then you'll have to parse the string as XML. How to do this depends on what processor you are using (you'll need an extension of some sort). Most processors will let you write to an external file (xt:document saxon:output xsl 1.1 xsl:document etc) in which case you can write to an external file (as text) and read it back as XML using document() Or you may be able to write an extension function that takes the string as argument, parses it as XML and returns a node set (This should be doable in MSXML3, for example) David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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