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Re: Embedding HTML Doc into XSL or XML
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- Subject: Re: Embedding HTML Doc into XSL or XML
- From: Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:59:54 -0600 (MDT)
- CC: sunitha at sql dot stph dot net
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
I answered this question on the list for you on August 11. Here is the
same answer, again.
Sunitha wrote:
> Hi all,
> Could anyone help me out with my problem.
> I want to embed an HMTL doucment into and XSL stylesheet.
> Is it possible?
FAQ.
The correct/elegant way is to make the HTML well-formed XML by following
the guidelines of the XHTML 1.0 Recommendation.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
Then you can copy the whole thing with xsl:copy-of.
If you must use poorly-formed data and you do not need to access the
internal structure of the HTML, and if you are using an XSLT 1.0 processor
(*not* IE5's default processor), you have the option of making the HTML be
a single block of character data:
<![CDATA[<BODY><P><BR>very bad HTML</LI></HEAD>]]>
which you can then put into a text node with an instruction to the XSLT
processor to flag that text node as not having its content subjected to
the escaping that might otherwise occur upon output, depending on the
output method chosen:
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[bad html goes
here]]></xsl:text>
or, if the data is in the source tree:
<xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
- Mike
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Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources:
webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.skew.org/xml/
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