Re: [xsl] Dynamically Converting text within an element to xml nodes wi

Thanks that worked, did the following.

<xsl:sequence 
select="saxon:parse(replace($content,'\[(/?\w+)([^\]]*?)\]','&lt;$1&gt;'))"/>


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
> 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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