Displaying embedded html from an xml file through an xsl stylesheet

[Joe Price]

Hi chaps

I've got an XML file, within that file i've embedded html code using
the
<![CDATA[ ]]>
tag

I'm displaying that xml file through a browser using an xsl style
sheet. However it is displaying any html from the xml file as text,
ie its displaying as text <br/> and <b> etc

How can i tell my xml file to display the html tags as html and not
display them as text?

Many thanks

 

[Martin Boehm]

I've got an XML file, within that file i've embedded html code using
the <![CDATA[ ]]> tag

I'm displaying that xml file through a browser using an xsl style
sheet. However it is displaying any html from the xml file as text,
ie its displaying as text <br/> and <b> etc

Sure, because the XSL Processor correctly escapes these tags, so they do
not lose their (in this case textual) meaning in HTML.
What you have to do is prevent this process called "output-escaping"
from happening.

When you have
<native>
<![CDATA[<p>Hallo</p><br><b>test</b>]]>
</native>

then this does the trick:
<xsl:template match="native">
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="."/>
</xsl:template>

HTH Martin

 

[Joe Price]

cheers bud, worked a treat

I've got an XML file, within that file i've embedded html code using
the <![CDATA[ ]]> tag

I'm displaying that xml file through a browser using an xsl style
sheet. However it is displaying any html from the xml file as text,
ie its displaying as text <br/> and <b> etc

Sure, because the XSL Processor correctly escapes these tags, so they do
not lose their (in this case textual) meaning in HTML.
What you have to do is prevent this process called "output-escaping"
from happening.

When you have
<native>
<![CDATA[<p>Hallo</p><br><b>test</b>]]>
</native>

then this does the trick:
<xsl:template match="native">
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="."/>
</xsl:template>

HTH Martin