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Rendering HTML Tags from within CDATA tag in XSL

Answer 1

+5 A:

<p class="smartText">
  <xsl:value-of 
    select="marketSummaryModuleData/smartText" 
    disable-output-escaping="yes"
  />
</p>

Tomalak 2009-03-31 16:07:03

Answer 2

+1 A:

Dimitre Novatchev 2009-03-31 16:09:58

Independently of whether it is a bad practice or not - won't "disable-output-escaping" do what the OP is after?

Tomalak 2009-03-31 16:11:37

@Tomalak: Yes it works fine.

AnthonyWJones 2009-03-31 16:13:38

@Dimitre: It depends on the source of the HTML, it could be the html comes from a source not compliant with HTML formed well enough to be included as-is in a XML document. If the XML document is merely message transport I can't see using a CDATA as a "bad practice".

AnthonyWJones 2009-03-31 16:15:56

@Tomalak and @AnthonyWJones Your comments were on the first version of my answer. Since then I edited it and probably it now answers your questions.

Dimitre Novatchev 2009-03-31 16:18:19

@Tomalak d-o-e may or maynot solve the OP's problem, depending on which XSLT processor (s)he is using.

Dimitre Novatchev 2009-03-31 16:22:08

disable-output-escaping does work, but not in all browsers. Since this module will be used by thousands of people, it will need to work in all browsers. It looks like I will need to take the data in my ASP code and parse it into multiple tags instead of one large string of text.

Shane Larson 2009-03-31 16:29:34

@Shane: you should add the detail that you need to work in all browsers in your question. Would a server-side transform work for you?

AnthonyWJones 2009-03-31 16:37:03

It would be nice to transform on the server side, but since this is a cross-domain solution, it will need to be transformed on the client-side.

Shane Larson 2009-03-31 16:43:36

Since this segment has the most information in it I am marking this as the right answer.The other answer is correct too, but not for all browsers. Was trying to take a shortcut by inserting HTML into the tags, but now I've realized that I really need to break out the info into well formed XML.

Shane Larson 2009-04-01 16:10:20

Good answer, but your edit at the end makes me want to down vote you. Right or wrong, lashing out at a single down-voter just makes you look petty.

Liam 2010-10-01 18:04:10

@Liam: This was done a year and a half ago, when I was a SO newbie... Even now, I think it expresses well my feelings towards anonymous downvoting, but nowadays I wouldn't have time to indulge in such conversations. For good or for bad. If ugly deeds continue to happen this is because they are allowed by the system. One thing that we can all learn here is to suppress our emotions -- something easier to say than really do. Anyway, this serves well as a historic stamp of where I stood some time ago. As for looking petty: isn't this slightly relative? Anyone may look petty, even photomodels :)

Dimitre Novatchev 2010-10-01 19:35:27

Answer 3

A:

I did the same but it does not work for me.. is there any specific reason?...

2009-05-22 07:25:16

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