You're talking about "tags". Tags don't exist in the data manipulated by
XSLT. XSLT only manipulates nodes in a tree. The way to solve your problem
is to use XSLT the way it was designed to be used: forget about CDATA and
tags, and think about element nodes.
Now take a step back, and tell us what you actually want to achieve - that
is, the input and output of your transformation, rather than your incorrect
attempts at coding the solution.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Anirvan Majumdar
[mailto:anirban(_dot_)majumdar(_at_)taxilalab(_dot_)com]
Sent: 07 August 2008 09:38
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Escaping <xsl:element> ouput
Hello,
I have a <xsl:variable> element which contains HTML snippet.
Parts of this snippet are generated by transformations of
other XSLT elements present.
Next on, I'd like to take this <xsl:variable>'s value and
apply some string manipulation templates on it. I realized
that if I wanted to extract the value inclusive of tags then
I needed to include the HTML code, and not the XSLT code,
within <![CDATA]]> sections. Everything seemed to be going
fine until I realized that all the content generated through
the <xsl:element>s was missing. The tags are ignored and only
the node value is captured.
How can I get around this problem? I checked and there is no
way for output escaping in <xsl:element>, and neither is
there any point of putting the code within <[CDATA[]]> since
the transformations won't occure only.
I also thought of using <xsl:copy-of> to extract the variable
value, but this isn't of much use to me, since the data
extracted through copy-of cannot be used for any further
processing as such. I can only display this value [something
like <xsl:value-of>]
Here's an example of the kind of XSL I'm working on:
<xsl:variable name="someVar">
<![CDATA[
<span id="1">
<input type="text" value="A" name="txtVal"/>
]]>
<xsl:element name="input">
<xsl:attribute name="type">hidden<xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="value">[some value computed
before]</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:elelement>
<![CDATA[
</span>
]]>
</xsl:variable>
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