Re: Text markup for web forums, eg. [b]bold text[/b]

Sometimes the most obvious solutions are the ones that get overlooked. 
Although you would obviously have to process this further for tags like 
[QUOTE] and [email].  But once the conversion to XML has taken place thats 
obviously not an issue.
Give me a sec to update the code and Ill repost a much more elegant 
solution.
Thanks George!

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Cristian Bina" <george(_at_)sync(_dot_)ro>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:36 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Text markup for web forums, eg. [b]bold text[/b]


> Hi,
>
> Just an idea, I do not know if that helps, but...
> you can translate the [] in <> and after this you should have well formed 
> XML and process it as you like with another stylesheet:
> <text>
> <value>Text may contain <b>bold text</b>, <i>italics</i> or both
> <b><i>bold and italics</i></b>.</value>
> </text>
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
> version="1.0">
>     <xsl:output method="text"/>
>     <xsl:template match="/">
>        <xsl:text>&lt;processedValue&gt;</xsl:text>
>        <xsl:value-of select="translate(text/value, '[]', '&lt;>')"/>
>        <xsl:text>&lt;/processedValue&gt;</xsl:text>
>     </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> <processedValue>Text may contain <b>bold text</b>, <i>italics</i> or both 
> <b><i>bold and italics</i></b>.</processedValue>
>
> Best Regards,
>  George
> -----------------------------------------------
> George Cristian Bina
> <oXygen/> XML Editor & XSLT Editor/Debugger
> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>
>
> Daniel Joshua wrote:
> > I was reading through this, gave me some ideas.
> >
> > Except that it does not handle nested "markup" like my input (below).
> >
> >
> > > XML (input):
> > >
> > > <text>
> > >   <value>Text may contain [b]bold text[/b], [i]italics[/i] or both
> > > [b][i]bold and italics[/i][/b].</value>
> > > </text>
> >> [...]
>
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