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Re: [xsl] JSON-encoding strings in XSLT 2.0

2013-10-29 06:46:37

On 29 Oct 2013, at 11:02, Martynas Jusevičius 
<martynas(_at_)graphity(_dot_)org> wrote:

Thanks Michael. I was looking at http://json.org and here's what I came up 
with:

   <xsl:template match="text()" mode="json-identity">
       <xsl:value-of
select="replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(., '\\',
'\\\\'), '''', '\\'''), '&quot;', '\\&quot;'), '&#09;', '\\t'),
'&#10;', '\\n'), '&#13;', '\\r')"/>
   </xsl:template>

Can this be improved?

Well, I'm not going to check that the list of characters to be escaped is 
complete, but you've got the right idea. I would code it like this for 
readability:

 <xsl:template match="text()" mode="json-identity">
       <xsl:variable name="v" select="."/>
       <xsl:variable name="v" select="replace($v, '\\', '\\\\')"/>
       <xsl:variable name="v" select="replace($v, '&quot;', '\\&quot;')"/>
       ...
       <xsl:value-of select="$v"/>
</xsl:variable>

or in 3.0 you can use the "!" operator for function chaining:

<xsl:template match="text()" mode="json-identity">
       <xsl:value-of select="replace(., '\\', '\\\\') ! replace(., '&quot;', 
'\\&quot;') ! ....."/>
</xsl:variable>

Michael Kay
Saxonica



       <xsl:value-of
select="replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(., '\\',
'\\\\'), '''', '\\'''), '&quot;', '\\&quot;'), '&#09;', '\\t'),
'&#10;', '\\n'), '&#13;', '\\r')"/>
   </xsl:template> 


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

There's no built-in function for the job, but picking out the characters =
that need special treatment (e.g. replacing newline by "\n") isn't =
difficult. Handling astral characters is a bit tricky because JSON =
requires them to be represented as a surrogate pair, but again the logic =
for that isn't really difficult.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 29 Oct 2013, at 00:56, Martynas Jusevičius 
<martynas(_at_)graphity(_dot_)org> wrote:

Hey,

is there some way in XSLT 2.0 to encode strings for use in JSON? In my
case, the stylesheet has to encode all text nodes in a XHTML fragment
which then gets passed to WYSIWYM editor constructor. Could this be
done as identity transform?

I had solved this problem when I used XSLT 1.0 on PHP by calling
json_encode() as extension function, but now I'm in the Java world.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php

Martynas
graphityhq.com

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