HTML Tags in XML

MaKSiNG · Dec 5, 2003

Hi All,

I have an XML file which contains HTML tags for formatting, eg. Bold, Paragraph, Lists, etc.

These are displayed in the XML as Entity References, eg. "& lt ;" and "& gt ;" for opening and closing tags.

I need this formating to remain, as the author of the content wishes this to draw emphasis to certain parts of his text.

The problem I have is that when I display the XML through my XSLT, the HTML tags are not exposed as formatting to the content but seen as content themselves, so I see them displayed amongst the text.

Is there a way to get around this?

TIA,
MaKS

jel · Dec 8, 2003

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="

http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xslutput method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>

MaKSiNG · Dec 9, 2003

Hi jel,

This doesn't seem to make any difference.

Here is a copy of my XSL:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xslutput method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<html>
<body width="100%" bgcolor="#F7F9FB">

<p>
<xsl:for-each select="record/item/value/item">

<xsl:value-of select="value"/><br/>

</xsl:for-each>
</p>

</body>
</html>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

And here a copy of part of the XML:

<item name="c_mainbody">
<value>
<item name="pagetitle">
<value>This is the Page Title</value>
</item>
<item name="mainbody">
<value>& lt;h2& gt;Principle& lt;/h2& gt;

& lt;p& gt;This is simply text with HTML formating already applied since it was converted from a word doc.& lt;/p& gt;

(I had to put spaces after each '&')
Would you mind having a look and tell me where I am going wrong. Or if this is possible?

TIA,

MaKS

Thx,
MaKS

MaKSiNG · Dec 9, 2003

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Boys and Girls,

Here is the solution!

On the end of the value-of select statement:

<xsl:value-of select="value" disable-output-escaping="yes" />

This prevents the encoded characters, eg. '& lt;' from being escaped when the XSL renders the XML into HTML, hence allowing them to be seen as HTML Tags and formatting applied accordingly.

Thanks to those who had a go,

Thx,
MaKS

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