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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Text markup for web forums, eg. [b]bold text[/b]
 How about translating also <> to [] in the first pass and apply in a second pass a copy stylesheet with the output method set to xml this time that will translate the [] back to <> ? George is being very cunning, but the bottom line here is that none of these approaches have yet proposed a good way of dealing with pseudo-markup that does not map directly to well-formed XML. And by definition, you have no intrinsic way of knowing that all the pseudo-markup you have, does map. (The reason you can't just change markup delimiters around in XSLT is that internally, the XSLT engine sees no markup; it has all been parsed away in the tree-building process.) Whether you work at the character level (translating back and forth between different markup delimiters) or try to implement a parser in XSLT (M. David's first approach) -- unless you have a generic solution for converting not-well-formed near-XML into true XML (and it won't be XSLT ;-), this isn't going to work outside controlled environments where you can either preclude badly-formed pseudo-markup altogether (in which case why not use real markup?), or where you can trap it and fix it when it turns up. Cheers, Wendell <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <text> <value>Text may < contain [b]bold text[/b], [i]italics[/i] or both [b][i]bold and italics[/i][/b].</value> </text> ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== 
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