XSL - search string, add anchor tags

Hello all,

I have an XSL document with a function that loops through XML nodes and spits out the data - my problem is that any links are parsed as plain text and don't work in the browser. My (stripped down to focus on the loop) XSL doc looks like this:I've tried enclosing the data in CDATA tags and using disable-output-escaping="yes" but to no avail

The XML looks like this after I wrote a PHP function to strip the href tags from the text string and return a vB Code style link back, i.e.So how can I use XSLT to parse the string and create valid link code that the browser can read? I'm not familiar with XSLT substring functions as I assume this will sort out my problem as long as it can find the [a][/a] tags and make the link from the text found between them.

Thanks for reading!

hi
this might give u an idea....

i still working for suitable solution though
meanwhile i hope this may help u



if ur xml this format :::



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<comment>
<message>This is some text before a link 1 <ulink url="http://www.yahoo.com/" >http://www.yahoo.com/</ulink> and this is trailing text</message>
<message>This is some text before a link 2 <ulink url="http://www.hotmail.com/" >http://www.hotmail.com/</ulink> and this is trailing text</message>
<message>This is some text before a link 3<ulink url="http://www.google.com/" >http://www.google.com/</ulink> and this is trailing text</message>
</comment>
</root>



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u can do xsl :: like this

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xslutput method="html" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8" omit-xml-declaration="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>


<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:for-each select="//comment/message">

<xsl:apply-templates />
<br/>

</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="/root/comment/message/ulink">


<A class="headbold" HREF="{@url}">

<xsl:apply-templates/>

</A>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>






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this is exactly does what u r trying to do now...

regards
niha

hi

i think it can be done only if u keep that url in a tag
<a>

instaed [a]

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xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<comment>
<message>This is some text before a link 1 <a>http://www.yahoo.co.uk</a> and this is trailing text</message>
<message>This is some text before a link 2 <a>http://www.someURL.co.uk</a> and this is trailing text</message>
<message>This is some text before a link 3 <a>http://www.someURL.co.uk</a> and this is trailing text</message>
</comment>
</root>



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xsl program

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xslutput method="html" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8" omit-xml-declaration="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>


<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:for-each select="//comment/message">

<xsl:apply-templates />
<br/>

</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="/root/comment/message/a">


<A HREF="{.}">

<xsl:apply-templates/>

</A>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


hope this helps...
regards
niha

Thanks Niha, the code works well!

Cheers