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

Hi,

Just an idea, I do not know if that helps, but...
you can translate the [] in <> and after this you should have well 
formed XML and process it as you like with another stylesheet:
<text>
<value>Text may 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;>')"/>
       <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>

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


Daniel Joshua wrote:
> I was reading through this, gave me some ideas.
>
> Except that it does not handle nested "markup" like my input (below).
>
>
> > XML (input):
> >
> > <text>
> >   <value>Text may contain [b]bold text[/b], [i]italics[/i] or both
> > [b][i]bold and italics[/i][/b].</value>
> > </text>
>> [...]