RE: [xsl] to generate a HOT-LINK in the HTML and FO outputs for all text that matches http://... URL syntax

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Abhishek,

Don't forget, when you do this,

At 05:41 AM 9/18/2003, Jarno wrote:
> Write a template for text nodes, which tests if the text contains the 
> string 'http://' and then using XPath string manipulation functions 
> replace the link text with an element that contains the link. Write a 
> recursive one, so that if a single text node contains multiple URLs, all 
> get transformed.

to take account of such cases as http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickrefs. 
Note the period at the end of that URL is not part of it.

Check out the stuff at exslt.org for hints (they have some nice templates 
and you might be able to just use em).

Note: this is a classic case of "up-conversion", pushing information up 
hill, for which XSLT 1.0 was not designed. XSLT 2.0 will have more powerful 
features for this kind of thing.

This stuff is also well covered by Jeni Tennison's book "XSLT on the Edge". 
You might want to check it out.

Cheers,
Wendell


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