RE: How can I do a string substitution for turning entities into html ta

Thanks for the code sample!  You have managed to save the last bit of
sanity I had left.


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Jim Hart
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Subject: Re: [xsl] How can I do a string substitution for turning
entities into html tags



On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 05:37  PM, Bill Chmura wrote:

> Here is an example of my xml data
>
> <text>
>    &lt;p&gt;Sometext here. Followed by more text&lt;/p&gt;
>    &lt;p&gt;More text.&lt;/p&gt;
>    &lt;li&gt;For more info see &lt;/li&gt;
> </text>
This turns the tags into elements so you can do other things with them 
if you want to. Note that the elements must have open and close tags.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text">
        <xsl:call-template name="makeElements">
                <xsl:with-param name="string"><xsl:value-of
select="text()"/>
                </xsl:with-param>
        </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="makeElements">
        <xsl:param name="string"/>
        <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="contains($string,'&lt;')">
                <xsl:value-of
select="substring-before($string,'&lt;')"/>
                <xsl:call-template name="makeElement">
                        <xsl:with-param name="string">
                                <xsl:value-of
select="substring-after($string,'&lt;')"/>
                        </xsl:with-param>
                </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="$string"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="makeElement">
        <xsl:param name="string"/>
        <xsl:element name="{substring-before($string,'&gt;')}">
                <xsl:value-of 
select="substring-before(substring-after($string,'&gt;'),'&lt;')"/>
        </xsl:element>
        <xsl:call-template name="makeElements">
                <xsl:with-param name="string">
                        <xsl:value-of 
select="substring-after(substring-after($string,'&gt;'),'&gt;')"/>
                </xsl:with-param>
        </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>



Jim Hart, Project Manager
Academic Technology Services
Library and Information Services
Bates College
Lewiston, Maine, USA


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