XSLT:Preserving HTML tags from original XML.

[Joe]

How would you preserve tags from an XML element in XSLT output..

Example:

XML document has an ELEMENT "SECTION" allowing contained HTML

This element might have an element such as <A HREF="dfksdfaj" >go</A>

I want the output from XSLT processing of the SECTION elements to
output
"<A HREF="dfksdfaj" >go</A>" and not "go". I've tried <xsl:value-of
disable-output-encoding select="."/> and it outputs "go".

Any help will be appreciated.

[David Carlisle]

jo******@sherid anc.on.ca (Joe) writes:

How would you preserve tags from an XML element in XSLT output..

XSLT has no access to the tags in the original document, it only has
access to the input tree generated by parsing those tags.
Example:

XML document has an ELEMENT "SECTION" allowing contained HTML

This element might have an element such as <A HREF="dfksdfaj" >go</A>

I want the output from XSLT processing of the SECTION elements to
output "<A HREF="dfksdfaj" >go</A>" and not "go". I've tried <xsl:value-of
disable-output-encoding select="."/> and it outputs "go".

Never use disable-output-encoding unless you are in very special
circiumstances where it needs to be used, and even then avoid it if
possible, it is explictly a non portable feature of XSLT.

You just want

<xsl:copy-of select="SECTION "/>

if you want a copy of the SECTION element, or

<xsl:copy-of select="SECTION/node()"/>

if you want a copy of its children, without the surrounding SECTION.
Any help will be appreciated.

David

[Joe]

David Carlisle <da****@nag.co. uk> wrote in message news:<yg******* ******@penguin. nag.co.uk>...

jo******@sherid anc.on.ca (Joe) writes:

How would you preserve tags from an XML element in XSLT output..

XSLT has no access to the tags in the original document, it only has
access to the input tree generated by parsing those tags.

Example:

XML document has an ELEMENT "SECTION" allowing contained HTML

This element might have an element such as <A HREF="dfksdfaj" >go</A>

I want the output from XSLT processing of the SECTION elements to
output

"<A HREF="dfksdfaj" >go</A>" and not "go". I've tried <xsl:value-of
disable-output-encoding select="."/> and it outputs "go".

Never use disable-output-encoding unless you are in very special
circiumstances where it needs to be used, and even then avoid it if
possible, it is explictly a non portable feature of XSLT.

You just want

<xsl:copy-of select="SECTION "/>

if you want a copy of the SECTION element, or

<xsl:copy-of select="SECTION/node()"/>

if you want a copy of its children, without the surrounding SECTION.

Any help will be appreciated.

David

Many thanks,
It worked. Will heed your other advice.

Joe