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RE: Fixing <b>

> I've got data that looks like:
>
> <body>
>   <p>&amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Some Text&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;
>   &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;Some More Text&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt;&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;
>   </p>
> </body>

If your data was single-escaped, i.e. if it read:

<p>&lt;b&gt;Some text&lt;/b&gt; ...

then I would chide you gently to say that when nesting XML inside XML, it's
best not to hide the markup by escaping it; and then I would tell you how to
get out of the predicament by using disable-output-escaping="yes".

But your nested XML is double-escaped, that is the "<" is represented not as
"&lt;" but as "&amp;lt;". So you'll have to put it through two
transformations, each of which removes one layer of escaping by using d-o-e.

This is really bad news, and one really must question why such an
extraordinary data representation was chosen in the first place.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
>
> And I need it to convert it to this:
>
> <body>
>   <p><b>Some Text</b><p/>
>   <i>Some More Text</i><p/>
>   </p>
> </body>
>
> I appreciate your help on this.
>
> Tammy Kohl
>
>
>
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