dynamic xhtml with xquery

[Michael Kay]

If your input contains escaped markup that you want to treat as markup then
you have to unescape it. The easiest way to do that is to put it through an
XML parser. Unfortunately there's no standard XQuery function to do that.
Saxon has saxon:parse(), other products may have similar extensions, or you
may be able to write your own.

A better solution is to persuade people not to escape their markup... 

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 



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> Subject:  dynamic xhtml with xquery
> 
> I'm stuck on a problem that must occur frequently, yet lots 
> of reading, google searches, and xquery experimentation have 
> not yet provided a solution. I'm writing in hopes that 
> someone can point me to an faq or similar info.
> 
> Here's the situation. I'd like to use xquery to write dynamic 
> xhtml (ie, to write xhtml on-the-fly that can be viewed in a 
> browser without additional editing).
> 
> I started with a small project involving rss, using zorba's 
> xquery REST functionality and GET to access the rss (returned 
> as xml). I then wrote an xquery to serialize the xml and 
> return xhtml. No problems when displayed in a browser 
> (Firefox) ... except for special characters. As you'd expect, 
> the GET returns angle brackets as < and > and since the 
> rss contains many href links there are many of these < and 
> > substitutions. The browser renders them correctly as > 
> and < but, naturally, the resulting href is seen as text and 
> not as a link.
> 
> I've tried lots of different possible solutions, all of which 
> I realize now were silly although useful for learning what not to do.
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gary Lewis
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