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Re: [xsl] How can I do a string substitution for turning entities into html tags

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On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 05:37 PM, Bill Chmura wrote:

Here is an example of my xml data

<text>
   &lt;p&gt;Sometext here. Followed by more text&lt;/p&gt;
   &lt;p&gt;More text.&lt;/p&gt;
   &lt;li&gt;For more info see &lt;/li&gt;
</text>

This turns the tags into elements so you can do other things with them if you want to. Note that the elements must have open and close tags.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text">
<xsl:call-template name="makeElements">
<xsl:with-param name="string"><xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="makeElements">
<xsl:param name="string"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($string,'&lt;')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($string,'&lt;')"/>
<xsl:call-template name="makeElement">
<xsl:with-param name="string">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after($string,'&lt;')"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$string"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="makeElement">
<xsl:param name="string"/>
<xsl:element name="{substring-before($string,'&gt;')}">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after($string,'&gt;'),'&lt;')"/>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:call-template name="makeElements">
<xsl:with-param name="string">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(substring-after($string,'&gt;'),'&gt;')"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Jim Hart, Project Manager
Academic Technology Services
Library and Information Services
Bates College
Lewiston, Maine, USA

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