xml with "almost" html inside

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July 26th, 2004, 01:20 PM

clemusa

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xml with "almost" html inside

Hello,

I have an xml document with an element like this
<ABSTRACT>some text....
Here is the link
<a href="http://website.com">Website</a></ABSTRACT>

I'm using xsl to display it.

<xsl:for-each select="ABSTRACT">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>

How could i get the html tag working ?

I know that if it was <a href="http://website.com">Website</a> inside the element it would work using xsl:copy-of but i have < > instead and can't do anything about it.

Thanks for your help,
Clement

July 27th, 2004, 04:43 PM

Malinali

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Try this

Code:

<xsl:for-each select="ABSTRACT">
<xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:for-each>

July 27th, 2004, 10:33 PM

NotGoddess

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If the only links you have are anchor tags, this should work. It might be able to be adapted to other tags or <a> tags with more than simple hrefs, but I'll leave that to you. There may be a simpler way to do this, but I am unfamiliar with it (if you find one that works, please post!). Also, this could be slow with large xml files. The test sample I used was fairly short.

With this xml (note addition of the <file> tags-there must be only one top-level element):

PHP Code:


		
			
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="almost_html.xsl"?>

<file>

   <ABSTRACT>

      some text....

      Here is the link <a href="http://website.com">Website</a>

   </ABSTRACT>

   <ABSTRACT>

      some text....

      Here is the link <a href="http://website.com">Website</a>

      Here is some more text and another link

      <a href="http://website.com">Website</a>

   </ABSTRACT>

   <ABSTRACT>

      some text....

      Here is the link <a href="http://website.com">Website</a>

   </ABSTRACT>

</file>

Use this xsl (warning long & confusing

)

PHP Code:


		
			
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="html" />



<xsl:template match="/">

   <html>

      <head>

         <title>bleh</title>

      </head>

      <body>

         Here is the xml:

         <hr/>

         <xsl:for-each select="//ABSTRACT">

            <p>Input text is: <xsl:value-of select="."/></p>

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

               <xsl:with-param name="input_text">

                  <xsl:value-of select="."/>

               </xsl:with-param>

            </xsl:call-template>

         </xsl:for-each>

         <hr/>

      </body>

   </html>

</xsl:template>



<xsl:template name="links">

   <xsl:param name="input_text"/>

   

   <xsl:variable name="before_text"

                 select="substring-before($input_text,'<a')" />

   <xsl:variable name="foo"

                 select="substring-after($input_text,'<a')" />

   <xsl:variable name="tag"

                 select="substring-before($foo,'>')" />

   <xsl:variable name="bar"

                 select="substring-after($foo,'>')" />

   <xsl:variable name="linktext" 

                 select="substring-before($bar,'</a>')" />

   <xsl:variable name="next_text"

                 select="substring-after($bar,'</a>')" />

   <xsl:variable name="wobble"

                 select="substring-before($next_text,'<a')" />

   

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

   <a>

      <xsl:attribute name="href">

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

      </xsl:attribute>

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

   </a>

   <xsl:if test="$wobble">

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

         <xsl:with-param name="input_text">

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

         </xsl:with-param>

      </xsl:call-template>      

   </xsl:if>   

</xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>

July 28th, 2004, 11:49 AM

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I'm sorry. I tested again the one I posted and it didn't work. I can't remember in which cases it worked. If I can find it, I will write back.

July 28th, 2004, 02:12 PM

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this worked for me, via php5 transform to html, as well as opening up in IE, for some reason it wouldnt work with firefox. . .?

test.xml

PHP Code:


		
			
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?>

<xml>

    <abstract>

        Here is the link <a href="http://website.com">Website</a>

    </abstract>

</xml>

test.xsl

PHP Code:


		
			
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

    <xsl:output method="html"/>

    <xsl:template match="xml">

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

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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July 28th, 2004, 02:18 PM

Malinali

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ah! The xsl

utput piece, that's what was missing.

July 29th, 2004, 02:05 AM

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Thank you for your much cleaner solution-definately the way to go if the poster can. I had tried that but it would not render for me.

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