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October 16th, 2007, 11:44 AM
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Convert entities...
Hi all
I have an element called <attributes> that has a XML inside, generated by a .NET Dataset (the content is like "<attribute name="test">My Content</attribute>" and so on)... I need to make a template in order to make the content a part of the XML itself, converting the entities to real "<" and ">".. How can I do this??
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October 16th, 2007, 11:50 AM
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When you first parse your XML, the < will be turned into <. So the string value of the <attributes> element is a piece of unparsed XML. To turn it into XML that you can process, you need to parse it (that is, to parse it again). Typically this involves invoking the XML parser using an extension function. In Saxon this is built-in (saxon:parse()). In other environments you may be able to write your own.
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October 16th, 2007, 12:00 PM
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quote:Originally posted by mhkay
When you first parse your XML, the < will be turned into <. So the string value of the <attributes> element is a piece of unparsed XML. To turn it into XML that you can process, you need to parse it (that is, to parse it again). Typically this involves invoking the XML parser using an extension function. In Saxon this is built-in (saxon:parse()). In other environments you may be able to write your own.
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Do you have any idea or example of how can I do this?
I'll create a template for doing just that...
Thanks.
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October 16th, 2007, 12:08 PM
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I would also suggest that the DataSet or the original data source is mis-configured if it is escaping the markup. Do you have any control over it?
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October 16th, 2007, 12:11 PM
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I would also suggest that the DataSet or the original data source is mis-configured if it is escaping the markup. Do you have any control over it?
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The type of my field is xs:string, but it always escapethe characters... I've searched about it and found no way to make the Dataset not to escape entities... Is it possible to make the Dataset generate a unescaped output?
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October 16th, 2007, 12:19 PM
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If you can convert it to an XML datatype then I think you can. Can you change the underlying query?
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October 16th, 2007, 12:24 PM
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If you can convert it to an XML datatype then I think you can. Can you change the underlying query?
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Change the type of the Dataset field or in the database?
I can change in either one (using .NET 1.1 and SQL Server 2k).
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October 16th, 2007, 12:37 PM
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In that case you may be out of luck, I was hoping for SQL Server 2005. I will investigate.
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October 16th, 2007, 12:56 PM
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In that case you may be out of luck, I was hoping for SQL Server 2005. I will investigate.
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Hmmm.. Thanks.. I appreciate that..
In the meanwhile... Anyone knows how to convert the entities to the actual symbols via xslt?
thankls
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October 16th, 2007, 01:07 PM
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If you're using MSXML, then you can write Javascript code in an <msxsl:script> block which you can invoke from an XPath expression during the course of the transformation (look up "extension functions"). This Javascript code can invoke the MSXML parser on your escaped string and pass back the resulting DOM tree.
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