Re: Unescaping < and >

I now understand that I need to parse the text into a DOM tree, perhaps 
using some extension
function...


> From: "Arthur Allen" <arthur_allen(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com>
> Reply-To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> Subject: [xsl] Unescaping &lt; and  &gt;
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:14:57 +0000
>
> Is there any way of unescaping a "&lt;" and "&gt;" from a text() element. 
> I'd like to
> re-inject what is supposed to be xml, but is provided instead as escaped 
> text within
> document elements.
>
> I've tried modifying the identity transform
>
> 	<xsl:template match="/ | @* | * | comment() | processing-instruction() | 
> text()">
>             <xsl:copy>
> 	    <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | * | comment() | 
> processing-instruction() | text()"/>
>              </xsl:copy>
>         </xsl:template>
>
>         <xsl:template match="document">
> 	     <xsl:variable name="xmlIntermediateText" 
> select="translate(text(),'&gt;','>')"/>
>                     <xsl:variable name="xmlText" 
> select="translate($xmlIntermediateText,'&lt;','<')"/>
>                     <xsl:value-of select="$xmlText"/>
>         </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> but the processor rejects the inclusion of '<' in the second argument to 
> translate().
> Thanks in advance,
> Arthur
>
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