Hi,
What is the best way to convert xml escape values like `&',
`Á' etc to their literal values for text output.
An XML parser.
I need this method for my own stylesheet which I use to convert
proprietary XML to text.
Ah, so you want to write an XML parser with XSLT. There are extension function
in some XSLT engines that allow you to call an XML parser on a string and get a
source tree back, suggest you use those if you need to process
looks-like-XML-but-is-not-XML. Make sure, thought, that the string you pass to
the extension method really is XML, it will choke on it if it's not
well-formed. Another approach is to preprocess the XML before feeding it to the
XSLT engine, with e.g. a SAX filter, that will unescape your pseudo-XML into
XML.
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