RE: [xsl] Preserve HTML formatting when apply-templates in variabl

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> The reason I did not include the last template is because I 
> was testing the
> result of the template match "review" by writing out my 
> variable like this:
> 
> <hr/>
>   <xsl:value-of select="$ui_review" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
> <hr/>
>

Just as Jeni suspected. She's good at finding bugs in code she can't see.

Switch to using xsl:copy-of and all should be well.

Michael Kay



 
> Hence, no need for the rest of the code.  In the above 
> example the HTML code
> has all ready been lost and the "ui_review" variable just 
> spits out the text
> result.  In otherwords, my HTML tags are lost when I apply-templates
> "review"... and the only way I found to preserve them is to 
> hide them fromt
> the XSLT processor with CDATA elements within text blocks 
> (the appaling
> stuff).
> 
> I tried the following variable declerations:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="$ui_review">
>   <xsl:copy-of select="review"/>
> </xsl:variable>
> 
> <xsl:variable name="$ui_review">
>   <xsl:value-of select="review"/>
> </xsl:variable>
> 
> (neither of the above work, I think they pull straight from the source
> ignoring the template rule all together).
> 
> Karl
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhk@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 11:55 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Preserve HTML formatting when apply-templates in
> variabl
> 
> 
> >
> > Wow!  Some solution (that I came up with).  The use of
> > xsl:text and cdata
> > elements is quite complex... would hate to apply something
> > like this to a
> > serious template match.  Anyhow... is this the best way to
> > accomplish what
> > I'd like to accomplish (and it works)?:
> 
> No, this is an appalling way to use XSLT. Go back to your 
> previous attempt
> and find out where your mistake was.
> 
> Michael Kay
> 
> 
> >
> > <xsl:template match="review">
> >   <xsl:text><![CDATA[<img src="/images/arrow_2.jpg"
> > alt="]]></xsl:text>
> > <xsl:value-of select="title"/><xsl:text><![CDATA[" class="padr"/>]]>
> > </xsl:text>
> > 	<xsl:text><![CDATA[<h3 class="txt_1 inline
> > bold">]]></xsl:text><xsl:value-of
> > select="title"/><xsl:text><![CDATA[</h3>]]></xsl:text>
> > 	<xsl:text><![CDATA[<p class="txt_1">]]></xsl:text><xsl:value-of
> > select="content"/><xsl:text><![CDATA[</p>]]></xsl:text>
> >
> >     <!-- link for more content -->
> >     <xsl:text><![CDATA[<div class="marginb">
> >     <a href="]]></xsl:text><xsl:value-of
> > select="link"/><xsl:text><![CDATA[>more <img 
> src="images/arrow_2.jpg"
> > alt="]]></xsl:text><xsl:value-of 
> select="title"/><xsl:text><![CDATA["
> > width="13" height="7" border="0"/></a>]]></xsl:text>
> >     <xsl:text><![CDATA[</div>]]></xsl:text>
> >
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karl J. Stubsjoen [mailto:karl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:21 PM
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [xsl] Preserve HTML formatting when apply-templates
> > in variabl
> >
> >
> > Hi there,
> > I am trying to get the result of a template match as
> > preserved HTML in my
> > variable.  I'm not to sure what is happening to the HTML, but
> > I think it is
> > just getting stripped.
> > The variable which should retrieve the HTML from the matched
> > template is
> > "ui_review".  The template "review" is responsible for
> > generating the HTML.
> >
> > Here is what I have:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="uireview">
> >    <xsl:variable name="ui_review">
> >     	<xsl:apply-templates select="review"/>
> >    </xsl:variable>
> >
> >    <xsl:call-template name="ui_content">
> >      <xsl:with-param name="title">UI Review</xsl:with-param>
> >      <xsl:with-param name="content" select="$ui_review"/>
> >      <xsl:with-param name="height">300</xsl:with-param>
> >    </xsl:call-template>
> >
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > <xsl:template match="review">
> > 	<img src="/images/arrow_2.jpg" alt="{title}" class="padr"/>
> > 	<h3 class="txt_1 inline bold"><xsl:value-of
> > select="title"/></h3>
> > 	<p class="txt_1"><xsl:value-of select="content"/></p>
> >
> >     <!-- link for more content -->
> >     <div class="marginb">
> >     <a href="{link}">more <img src="images/arrow_2.jpg" 
> alt="{title}"
> > width="13" height="7" border="0"/></a>
> >     </div>
> >     <!-- horizontal "dashed" div tag -->
> >     <xsl:if test="not(position()=last())">
> >     	<div class="hr_1px_dashed" />
> >     </xsl:if>
> >
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> >
> > ========= end example ==========
> >
> > Thanks for the help!
> > Karl