Well, that didn't work for me. Let me show you a quick XML and XSLT files
so you can see what it is doing for me.
The XML file:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<test>
<something>
<p>Hey, dangit work!</p>
</something>
</test>
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The XSLT file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="/test">
<xsl:copy-of select="something" />
<xsl:value-of select="something" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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The output:
Hey, dangit work!
Hey, dangit work!
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The specs on the W3C website say that when I print out a node in text mode,
it will take the text values from each descendant node printing each. As a
result, I should expect all my tags and attributes to be stripped, and all
the actual values of the tags to be concatenated together and lovingly spit
out.
Of course I don't want this. The copy-of solution didn't work for me. But
then of course I'm not really sure what a p-node is, so maybe that's my
problem.
Anything else?
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Andreas L.
Delmelle
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 3:47 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] Can I print well-formed XML/HTML in text output mode
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathaniel Stoddard
When I do the <xsl:value-of select="my_node" /> then it just does a messy
output. If "my_node" is "<p>Hey, this stupid thing won't work right</p>"
then it will proceed to print "Hey, this stupid thing won't work
right". As
Actually, the stupid thing *is* working right if my_node is the p-node :)
fun as that is, it doesn't look too nice later when it shows up on a
webpage. (I can't just put the <p> and </p> around the thing because the
data in the node is PCDATA, so any html can be in there.) I'd
like a simple
value-of statement, but apparently that's a no-go since it is in text mode
and text mode will take the text only in all the descendent
nodes, and leave
out the tags.
Use <xsl:copy-of select="my_node" /> for this.
Hope this helps!
Cheerz,
Andreas
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