Re: [xsl] Including markup in a replace string

On 06.10.2016 15:09, Craig Sampson craig(_dot_)sampson(_at_)sas(_dot_)com wrote:

>   I have code examples in some doc that are post processed in AngularJS.
> In some cases the code examples include “{{“ or “}}” which is
> significant to Angular. I have a simple replace that I am using to wrap
> a no-process span around the curly braces so the Angular process will
> ignore them.
>
>
>
>   *<**xsl:value-of **select*=/"replace(.,'(\{\{|\}\})','&lt;span
> class=&quot;noProcess&quot;&gt;$1&lt;/span&gt;')"/*/>*
>
>
>
>   The only problem is that the character entity is being output as a
> character entity instead of less-than and greater-than characters.
replace returns a string, node nodes.

>   Is there a way to trick replace into outputting the less-than and
> greater-than characters?
Depending on the XSLT processor and the context using
  <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="..."/>
is a hack that can help, but


>   So unless there’s a way to trick replace I’ll have to try
> analyze-string and see if I can get what I need there.
using analyze-string is certainly a cleaner way in XSLT 2.0 or 3.0.
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