Escaping characters in text output

[eivindan]

Hi,

I'm trying to convert a convert a Office XML-file into a tagged text file. The text file uses a special syntax, similar to a flat XML-file (but it's not valid XML). That means that characters such as < and > have to be escaped in the output.

"<w:t>Some <tagged> text</w:t>" is now converted into "<tag:type>Some <tagged> text<tag:>" in the output. The wanted result is "<tag:type>Some \<tagged\> text<tag:>".

Any help on how I could accomplish this is much appreciated.

Eivind

[katzlbt]

http://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_cdata.asp

[eivindan]

Just a followup with my solution, that also supports regexp search and replace.

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   <xsl:template name="filter_strings">

        <xsl:param name="input_text" />

        <xsl:param name="search" select="document('ITT_SEARCH_REPLACE.xml')/*/string_replacement/search" />

        <xsl:variable name="replaced_text">

            <xsl:value-of select="lpp:search-and-replace($input_text, $search[1]/find, $search[1]/replace)"/>

        </xsl:variable>

        <xsl:choose>

            <xsl:when test="$search[2]">

                <xsl:call-template name="filter_strings">

                    <xsl:with-param name="input_text" select="$replaced_text" />

                    <xsl:with-param name="search" select="$search[position() > 1]" />

                </xsl:call-template>

            </xsl:when>

            <xsl:otherwise>

                <xsl:value-of select="$replaced_text" />

            </xsl:otherwise>

        </xsl:choose>

    </xsl:template>

    

    <xsl:function name="lpp:search-and-replace">

        <xsl:param name="input"/>

        <xsl:param name="search-string"/>

        <xsl:param name="replace-string"/>

        <xsl:sequence select="replace($input, $search-string, $replace-string)"/>

    </xsl:function>

ITT_SEARCH_REPLACE.xml:

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<root>

    <string_replacement>

        <search>

            <find>></find>

            <replace>\\></replace>

        </search>

        <search>

            <find><</find>

            <replace>\\<</replace>

        </search>

    </string_replacement>

</root>