Getting HTML back out of XML

[darrel]

I'm having a hell of a time figuring this out. ;o)

OK, thanks to Oleg, I finally figured out how to get XHTML in my XML by
using writeRaw to get it to not encode the XHTML going in.

However, I can't get it back out. I'm transforming my XML using XSLT:

Dim trasformedXML As New System.IO.StringWriter
xslt.Transform(doc, Nothing, trasformedXML, Nothing)
lbl_rulesText.Text = trasformedXML.ToString

The element that also has XHTML in it is transformed SANS the HTML tags.

<xsl:value-of select="text" />

That's returning the text of the node, but none of the HTML elements.

At first, I thought that, well, since it's XHTML, I have more nodes
underneath the TEXT node. But that doesn't explain why it returns all of the
text even the text nested in P tags/nodes.

So, am I just crazy for trying to store unencoded xhtml in an xml file?
Should I encode the html and then pull the XML in as a dataset so I can
select that specific 'field' and unencoded then? Another/better option?

-Darrel

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[Martin Honnen]

darrel wrote:

The element that also has XHTML in it is transformed SANS the HTML tags.

<xsl:value-of select="text" />

That's returning the text of the node, but none of the HTML elements.

xsl:value-of always gives a text node with the string value and not any
elements. If you want to copy the element use e.g.
<xsl:copy-of select="text"/>
if you want to copy the children use e.g.
<xsl:copy-of select="text/*"/>

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[darrel]

>The element that also has XHTML in it is transformed SANS the HTML tags.

>>
<xsl:value-of select="text" />

That's returning the text of the node, but none of the HTML elements.

xsl:value-of always gives a text node with the string value and not any
elements. If you want to copy the element use e.g.
<xsl:copy-of select="text"/>
if you want to copy the children use e.g.
<xsl:copy-of select="text/*"/>

Yep. That makes sense.

So, obviously, I do NOT want to store unencoded xhtml in my xml.

Sounds like the most practical method is to not use XSLT and instead load
the data in a dataset, which would allow me to grab the encoded XHTML as a
field and unencode at that point. Any opinions on that?

Is there a common way to store HTML in XML and get it back out just via
XSLT?

-Darrel

[Martin Honnen]

darrel wrote:

So, obviously, I do NOT want to store unencoded xhtml in my xml.

Sounds like the most practical method is to not use XSLT and instead load
the data in a dataset, which would allow me to grab the encoded XHTML as a
field and unencode at that point. Any opinions on that?

Is there a common way to store HTML in XML and get it back out just via
XSLT?

If you really have well-formed XHTML then it is no problem to put that
into an XML document without any escaping as XHTML is XML. And XSLT can
nicely process those elements as well. I am not sure why my suggestion
to use xsl:copy-of lets you conclude that your approach does not work,
it does not work to use xsl:value-of to output elements as xsl:value-of
outputs only the string value in terms of XPath. But xsl:copy-of gives
you a copy of the node so that way you can output the XML or XHTML elements.
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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[darrel]

If you really have well-formed XHTML then it is no problem to put that

into an XML document without any escaping as XHTML is XML.

I got that far, but...

And XSLT can nicely process those elements as well.

*If* I use copy-of. D'oh! Sorry...I completely missed that in your previous
post (I scanned it as being 'value of')

Copy-of works! Thanks, Martin!

-Darrel