RE: Converting entities into string

Christian,

The following stylesheet should work:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/DESCR">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="*">
    <xsl:text>&lt;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="name(.)"/>
    <xsl:text>&gt;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
    <xsl:text>&lt;/</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="name(.)"/>
    <xsl:text>&gt;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Hope this helps.

Bob

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-----Original Message-----

Hello list,

i need to convert a xml-file into another xml-file. I ran into this
problem:

Source XML:

<DESCR>
 some text
 <b>
   more text
 </b>
 even more text
</DESCR>

My Target XML should look like:

<DESCR>
 some text
 &lt;b&gt;
   more text
 &lt;/b&gt;
 even more text
</DESCR>

i tried <xsl:copy-of> which gave me a copy of the source. <xsl:copy>
removed the <b>, but I want to keep the information about the <b>, just not
as <b>

In short: how can i convert the '<' and '>' into '&lt;' and '&gt;' easily?

Or is there another solution?

Thanks for your help,
Christian


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