RE: Encapsulating and displaying html fragments

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:57 +0200, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
> > From: Shaun ONeil [mailto:shaun@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> Is there any reason in particular why your input looks the way it does?
> 
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="testcase.xsl"?>
> > <test>
> >   <fragment>&lt;p&gt;A &lt;acronym title="HyperText Markup
> > Language"&gt;HTML&lt;/acronym&gt; fragment&lt;/p&gt;</fragment>
> > </test>

I hadn't thought of treating the HTML as XML, so I'd experimented with
CDATA sections .. then realised it was having the same effect as
entities, so I stuck with that to keep on eless complication (CDATA) out
of the puzzle

> The content of the fragment node is actually valid XML, so why not just make
> it:
> 
> <fragment>
>   <p>A <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>
> fragment</p>
> </fragment>
> 
> to begin with. Then you won't need d-o-e after all, just use
> 
> <xsl:copy-of select="fragment/p" />
> 
> to copy it to the result tree...

I'm dealing with XHTML 1.0 Strict, for both the source fragments and the
rendered document .. so they should always be valid XML :o)  Once again
my common flaw of sticking with what I was used to (value-of) rather
that looking to see what other tools are available - copy-of
"fragment/*" is doing the trick perfectly.

> HTH!
> 
> Greetz,
> 
> Andreas

It does indeed,
Thanks
  Shaun