Re: Text markup for web forums, eg. [b]bold text[/b]

Hi David,

How about translating also <> to [] in the first pass and apply in a 
second pass a copy stylesheet with the output method set to xml this 
time that will translate the [] back to <> ?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<text>
<value>Text may &lt; contain [b]bold text[/b], [i]italics[/i] or both
[b][i]bold and italics[/i][/b].</value>
</text>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0">
    <xsl:output method="text"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
       <xsl:text>&lt;processedValue&gt;</xsl:text>
       <xsl:value-of select="translate(text/value, '[]&lt;>', '&lt;>[]')"/>
       <xsl:text>&lt;/processedValue&gt;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


<processedValue>Text may [ contain <b>bold text</b>, <i>italics</i> or both
<b><i>bold and italics</i></b>.</processedValue>


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0">
    <!-- Match document -->
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy" select="."/>
    </xsl:template>
    <!-- Deep copy template -->
    <xsl:template match="*|@*" mode="copy">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy" select="@*"/>
            <xsl:apply-templates mode="copy"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <!-- process the [] from text nodes -->
    <xsl:template match="text()" mode="copy">
        <xsl:value-of select="translate(., '[]', '&lt;>')"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<processedValue>Text may &lt; contain <b>bold text</b>, <i>italics</i> 
or both
<b><i>bold and italics</i></b>.</processedValue>

Best Regards,
 George
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George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor & XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com


M. David Peterson wrote:
> In rethinking through this and then testing it it occured to me that 
> this solution creates some issues with output escaping.  Ive got to 
> attend to some other things this morning but will take a look at this 
> again later.
> Best regards,
>
> <M:D/>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. David Peterson" 
> <m(_dot_)david(_at_)mdptws(_dot_)com>
> To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Text markup for web forums, eg. [b]bold text[/b]
>
>
> > Sometimes the most obvious solutions are the ones that get overlooked. 
> > Although you would obviously have to process this further for tags 
> > like [QUOTE] and [email].  But once the conversion to XML has taken 
> > place thats obviously not an issue.
> > Give me a sec to update the code and Ill repost a much more elegant 
> > solution.
> > Thanks George!
> >
> > <M:D/>