Re: presenting xml elements as they appear in the sour

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

Cheers,
Wendell

Hello,

In general can anyone suggest how to display xml nodes as they appear in the source file?
If there is an easy way of doing this it will assist with this problem:

I'd like to use xsl to prepare an html document but at certain points the xml becomes an arbitrary mix of nodes, think of a number of a number of legal/valid elements that can be arranged in arbitrary ways, such as a nested query.

Since the composition of the query is unpredictable it is necessary to just present the nodes as they are in the source xml, complete with the < > brackets, to make things easy.

I see that there are examples of presenting xml in trees and that may be a bit time consuming for a beginner to implement so simply listing the elements verbatim is fine for now.

Thank you

Rod

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