Re: XSL and "discontinuous" tags

> I have an XML file that is somewhat unprofessional in design, because it
> does this (essentially)
>
> <quoteBegin/> this is a quote
> <p> with a paragraph inside </p>
> <p> and another, but the quote ends here <quoteEnd/> </p>
>

Daniel,

You acknowledge the malformedness of the instance but miss the consequence.  Of
the two flavors of XML, well-formed and valid, yours is neither and consequently
not XML at all.  I think that you will need find a way to regular expression
your instance into well-formedness before you can expect a conforming XSL
processor to do anything useful with your document.

XSL has no facility for tidying a malformed instance because it presupposes
well-formedness.

hth,

Mike


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