HTML Tags in XMT/XSLT

[Spence Hackney]

I am using ASP.NET to get XML data from a database, style it with an XSLT, and then display it as HTML to a browser. The content in the database, which becomes my XML, has HTML tags embedded in it. When putting the data from the database into an XML stream, the ASP.NET class automatically escapes all my HTML tags for me so that it will be valid XML.

Here is my problem...after my XSLT transforms the XML into HTML my embedded HTML tags are still escaped, thus they are displayed to the browser.

I can think of a couple ways to do this, all too complex and slow to be the best way. Can anyone offer a good strategy for this? This must be something folks do all the time!

 

[Ted (3)]

I have the same problem and I've yet to come across a good solution (BTW I'm using Java, not .NET.)

What I'm doing now is using Perl to get the XML into the database (not parsing the XML, just grabbing it as plain text).

 

[Patrick TJ McPhee]

% I am using ASP.NET to get XML data from a database, style it with an % XSLT, and then display it as HTML to a browser. The content in the % database, which becomes my XML, has HTML tags embedded in it. When % putting the data from the database into an XML stream, the ASP.NET % class automatically escapes all my HTML tags for me so that it will be % valid XML. % % Here is my problem...after my XSLT transforms the XML into HTML my % embedded HTML tags are still escaped, thus they are displayed to the % browser.

Assuming you're using xsl:value-of to write out the html data, try

<xsl:value-of select="whatever" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

 

[Spence Hackney]

Thanks! This works like a charm!!!

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