Re: [xsl] > replaced by ">", < is not replaced...

> > in the output, ">" become a ">". This is not what I want. Not 
> > because of visualization in an HTML client, but because I have to be 
> > able to map the output of the XLS back to some original input which 
> > contains the ">", " ", etc. I basically just want to keep the 
> > character encodings from the input in the output.
> Aha, now we're getting at the root of the problem. You need to compare 
> the things. If you compare XML documents, or HTML documents, the 
> comparison software should be able to deal with numerical character 
> entities (and named character entities) and treat a ">" equal to ">" 
> equal to ">" equal to "&#062".
> If your software cannot make that kind of comparison, you can try 
> several things, of which the following come to mind:
>   1. Post process the output to get your original char ents back
>   2. Use XSLT 2 instead and use character maps to force the char ents
>   3. Use different comparison software that is capable of reading XML 
> the proper way (you mention HTML, but from your code it seems that you 
> create XML)
>   4. Load and Save the original XML into the XSLT processor you built, 
> one with transformation, other with copy-of, this will serialize both 
> the same way and makes comparison on a byte by byte basis easier (but 
> still not solid)
>   5. Use XSLT to do the comparison (XSLT 2 is preferred: just use 
> deep-equal() function if equality is all you are after)
> I cannot recommend anything else than option 3 and 5, all others are 
> workarounds that after time will make your software weak or at least 
> vulnerable to bugs.
This sounds all very logical. I think option 5 is the best way to go at
this point. However, I am not sure how to go about doing such a
comparison. My situation is as follows: My user selects a subset of the
original XML file. After this action I need to compare the selection of
the user to the original. Once I find the location of the selection
inside the original I have to surround this selection with a new tag,
say "<selection>", and "</selection>". I have placed an example of
text online at http://www.jborsje.nl/example.txt, so you can see what I 
mean.
One way I can think of is iterating over all of the elements of the
original, each time calling the "deep-equal()" function, but I do not
know if that is the best approach.

Thank you very much for you time and help.

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Best regards,
Jethro Borsje

http://www.jborsje.nl


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