Re: [xsl] HTML character entity issue

Atul,

I haven't read the original post, but I guess it would be sufficient  
to "repair" the XML during processing. Of course it is always better  
to get correct XML in the first place. Also sometimes it is simpler to  
preprocess such documents with a different tools to search and replace  
all "&lt;br/&gt;" with "<br/>", but nevertheless it is possible with  
XSL.
"&lt;br/&gt;" is nothing special for XSL, just simple text. So any  
"repair" must go into a template that processes text:
<xsl:template match="text()" priority="2">
  <xsl:call-template name="fix-br">
    <xsl:with-param name="text" select="."/>
  </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="fix-br">
  <xsl:param name="text" select="''"/>
  <xsl:variable name="bad-br" select="'&lt;br/&gt;'"/>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="contains($text, $bad-br)">
      <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text, $bad-br)"/>
      <br/>
      <xsl:call-template name="fix-br">
        <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,  
$bad-br)"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

This is recursive in case there is more than one "bad-br" in your  
content. With XSLT 2.0 it could be written with a function and/or  
regular expressions.
HTH,

- Michael (who sometimes has to fix bad content as well)

Am 23.12.2008 um 20:25 schrieb Atul Shinh:

> Hey thanks Michael and Vasu for replying back. My response got slow  
> on this.
> Nothing out of this seems to be working.
>
> I have tried the CDATA and disable-output-escaping="yes". I think I am
> using it in wrong way. Can you elaborate how to use it? I give you
> description of my files.
>
>
> ---------------------------part of   
> index.xml--------------------------
> <katalog>
> <produkt>
> <!-- what a story -->
> <gruppe>Universal-Türdämpfer VS 2000</gruppe>
> <titel>Das kräftige Topmodell mit verkleidetem Haken</titel>
> <content>My sampla text &lt;br/&gt;  DICTATOR-Türdämpfer bremsen
> zufallende Türen progressiv, d.h. besonders sanft ab, ziehen sie leise
> ins Türschloß und halten sie sicher geschlossen.
>
>               </content>
> </produkt>
> </katalog>
>
>
> -------------------- part of index.xsl --------------------------
>
> .............
> .........
> <fo:table-row>
>  <fo:table-cell >
> <fo:block>
>  <xsl:value-of select="content" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
>
> </fo:block>
> </fo:table-cell>
> .............
> .........
> <xsl:template match="br" >
>
>      <xsl:text><![CDATA[<br />]]></xsl:text>
>  </xsl:template>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So I have given a view of my files.
> so the "br" tag is actually &lt;br/&gt; in xml  and it is appearing as
> <br / > in output
> Michael i tried by your way also
> Is there any namespace that is neccessary for all this to work ?
>
>
> Thanks and regards
> Atul
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