It's probably simplest to replace [] by <> (e.g. using translate()) to
create lexical XML, and then parse the resulting string into a node tree by
using an extension such as saxon:parse().
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Muir [mailto:alex(_dot_)g(_dot_)muir(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 28 December 2009 17:29
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Dynamically Converting text within an element
to xml nodes within the output document
Hi,
Given input such as the following within the "text" element
in a larger xml document currently being processed by an XSL file:
<text>
[ZZ] [XX] [YY] X [/YY] [YY] Y [/YY] [/XX] [/ZZ] </text>
Is it possible to dynamically replace the [ ] with < > to
output the text as xml nodes in the output document?
<text>
<ZZ><XX><YY>X</YY><YY>Y</YY></XX></ZZ>
</text>
What is making this difficult for me is that the text input
could come in different structures with other psuedo tags for
example a [[BB]] or some other that may not be expected and
so ideally it would be nice to convert the [[ to < and the ]]
to > with a find and replace however getting the XSLT script
to recognize this converted string as XML nodes I can't seem
to find a way to do.
Regards
--
Alex
https://sites.google.com/a/utg.edu.gm/alex
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