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Re: Using HTML tags
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:13:15 GMT
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Using HTML tags
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> encode the previous string as
>
> <description>Some <b>description</b></description>
why couldn't that be encoded with elements
> encode the previous string as
<description>Some <b>description</b></description>
in which case you would be in much better position.
You can do it in xslt but string handling is _not_ XSLT's strong point,
if you want to handle the string representaion of an XMl documentation,
rather tahn a tree representation, you would be better of using a
language of regular expressions, such as perl.
However you can get what you want in this case by
<xsl_value-of select="substring-before(.,'<b>')"/>
<b>
<xsl_value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(.,'<b>'),'</b>')"/>
</b>
but doing this in general is rather hard in XSLT.
there are other possibilities including
<xsl:value of disable-output-encoding="yes" select="."/>
but d-o-e is never to be recommended, and will not work in all
situations.
David
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