tag escaping

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Mr_R

I have to convert a xml file to html
i have a template matching eache tag (...)
i have to escape the tag when a <a> tag are following

ex. text = carriage return + text

but

<a href>text</a> = text

any suggestion?

Khalid_Ali

...confused....did not understand

Mr_R

sorry for my english.

i have an xml file and i convert it in html.
<xml>
some text some text
some text some text<a>link</a>
</xml>

i want to grab all the except the one before the <a>

lillu

Hi,

Just some comments on your xml.

It should be well-formed like this:

xml declaration on the first line
you must include 1 root element, eg.
you must include both start and end tags
elements must be properly nested
empty elements must be used like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="escaping.xsl"?>

 some text
 some text
 some text
 some text
 <a>some link</a>
 some text
 some text
 some text
 some text

If I get it right, you want a result html, where a line break is inserted after each text node except before a link node?

The following xsl stylesheet uses xpath expressions to find the node containing a child named <a>.
It also uses <xsl:choose> to control where to place a line break.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head><title>Sample XSL Stylesheet</title></head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="br">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="child::*[1][self::a]"><xsl:value-of select="." /><xsl:text> </xsl:text></xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="." /> </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

HTH,

lillu

I made some improvement in the code:

I put before the value-of tag so the line break will occur before the outputted value, as Mr R asked for.
<xsl:oherwise> <xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:otherwise>
I was messing around with that axis thing then found out that <xsl:when test="a"> is of course a much simpler way of selecting a node.
I used ... xml:space="preserve">space<xsl:value-of ... instead of <xsl:text> </xsl:text>

Here's the entire xsl file.

<xsl:template match="br">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="a" xml:space="preserve"> <xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise> <xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I'm very new to xml, xsl so I would appreciate any feedback on this code...

Thanks

Lillu