How do I format text in between xsl:text tags?

Question

I have an xslt sheet with some text similar to below:

<xsl:text>I am some text, and I want to be bold<xsl:text>

I would like some text to be bold, but this doesn't work.

<xsl:text>I am some text, and I want to be <strong>bold<strong> </xsl:text>

The deprecated b tag doesn't work either. How do I format text within an xsl:text tag?

Answer 1

Try this:

<fo:inline font-style="bold"><xsl:text>Bold text</xsl:text></fo:inline>

• XSL-FO Tutoria: Inline Text Formatting
• XSL-FO inline Object

Answer 2

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">I want to be <strong>bold<strong> </xsl:text>

Answer 3

XSL-FO formatting should be able to do that, see the W3Schools tutorial.

Answer 4

However, I don't think [using disable-output-escaping] this workaround is the best way to go. Perhaps you could learn more from w3schools' crash course on XLS.

Could you be more specific about why? That link to a crash course is nice but doesn't help with the particular problem the questioner wants to solve. I feel that using XSL-FO might be too complex for his needs.

Answer 5

You don't. xsl:text can only contain text nodes and <strong> is an element node, not a string that starts with less-than character; XSLT is about creating node trees, not markup. So, you have to do

<xsl:text>I am some text, and I want to be </xsl:text>
<strong>bold<strong>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>