Eric,
At 02:05 PM 2/20/2004, you wrote:
I have a rss feed I am trying to transform, but it will not read the img and
a tags from within the description of each item
If you're referring to the pseudo-markup in your sample file (the
markup-that-is-not-markup because it is escaped), you are looking at the
Bane of RSS. This stuff is done this way so it won't be parsed. Not parsed,
not XML -- your stylesheet can't do anything with it beyond treating it as
a string.
There are extension functions in some processors that will take a string
and parse it as XML -- Saxon has one -- but short of that you're kind of
stuck; your options are (a) to pre-process the file into honest markup
(running the risk that it won't be well-formed, but then that's the risk
already) -- this can be done using the non-standard XSLT
disable-output-escaping feature -- or (b) to implement an XML parser in XSLT.
Even though the XML Rec says that "It shall be easy to write programs which
process XML documents", you really don't want to try (b).
I'd look for the extension function, and if I couldn't use that, I'd try
(a). In any case, you'll need a strategy for dealing with feeds that break
because their "markup" isn't well-formed (requiring very smart heuristics
or manual intervention to fix).
Cheers,
Wendell
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