RE: [xsl] Can I put a variable to be interpreted in an xml node?

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> So, what you're saying is that I shouldn't use any HTML tags 
> in an XML document?
> Or are you saying that I should be using strickt XHTML?

Yes, use XHTML. Or at any rate, an XML representation of the HTML tags.

Michael Kay

> 
> The fact is that I can redesign the source document, but I've 
> no clue how. I need to put a sentence in multiple languages in 
> the XML document and one of the words should be a link, as follows:
> 
> Forgot your password? Fill in <a href="{$link}">this form</a> 
> to retrieve your password.
> 
> Grtz,
> 
> Bart
> 
> On 14 Jul 2004 at 9:28, Michael Kay wrote:
> 
> > > I'm new to this list, and this is my first question. I have a 
> > > two-lingual website (dutch & french). The texts are 
> manually put in
> > > a seperate XML file. Now in one case the text contains a variable,
> > > like in this example:
> > > 
> > > <tagname><![CDATA[You can find the link <a 
> > > href="{$link}">here</a>]]></tagname>
> > > 
> > > Obviously when I pull this tag into the document using 
> > > <value-of the {$link} is not interpreted. How can I solve 
> > > this problem? 
> > > I need to use CDATA because the tag can contain html code 
> > > like bold, paragraph tags etc.
> > 
> > It's much better to use well-formed markup in the source 
> document. By
> > putting tags in CDATA, you are telling the system "this 
> isn't markup,
> > it's ordinary text", which patently isn't true, and has the effect
> > that it makes the internal structure inaccessible to the XPath and
> > XSLT processors.
> > 
> > If you can't redesign the source document, then try to find a
> > processor that supports the disable-output-escaping option, and use
> > <xsl:value-of with disable-output-escaping="yes"/>. This is 
> not a good
> > solution, because it means you rely on the result tree being
> > serialized as part of the transformation, but it may be your only
> > escape route from a poor document design.
> > 
> > Michael Kay
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