Re: Html tags as part of XML elements rendered as text

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

Gary L Peskin wrote:
> If you're dying to keep your input xml data in this form, you might try
> adding the disable-output-escaping="yes" attribute to the <xsl:value-of
> select="text"/> element.  Although implementation is optional, it will
> probably work.

It probably won't because he said he's using IE5.

> The more preferred solution would be to see if you can change your input
> XML document to something more XML-like:
> 
> <text><font face="helvetica" size="2"><b>this thing
> costs</b><br>$219.00</br></font></text>

<br>$219.00</br> ?

You mean:

$219.00<br/>

> Then, you could change the <xsl:value-of select="text"> to
> 
> 	<xsl:copy-of select="text/*">

Not in IE5, if he's using the MSXML that shipped with it. He'll have to do
an identity transform.

   - Mike
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