Re: copy-of problem...

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Subject: Re: copy-of problem...
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 06:48:14 -0400

At 2003-07-14 11:26 +0100, David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Given XML input of the form

<description>HereâEUR$(1s (Ba Google search for a famous phrase, &lt;a
href="http://www.google.com/search?q=to+be+or+not+to+be">to be or not to
be&lt;/a>; give it a try and see what happens.
.... </description>

1. its utf-8 encoded.
2. The output is to be html.

I can't figure out the template for description
 element (or the output method?)
that will provide me with an a element and an href attribute
as if were normally marked up content.

Isn't this the classical justification for disable-output-escaping?

copy-of - which I guessed would work (wrongly)

You don't want the *structure* of your input to be copied, though. And your input HTML is flat next, not markup.

value-of

both put out escaped content...

You want the output escaping to be disabled.

My understanding is that disable-output-escaping= was created to accommodate database blobs of HTML that might be serialized wrapped in XML and emitted without the escaping of the content ... which looks like what you are trying to do.

I hope this helps.

....................... Ken


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