HTML Code in XML

Neelimaa · May 4th, 2006, 07:07 AM

Hi all,
I have an XML file as follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<planets>
   <planet>
      <Name>Mercury</Name>
      <info>
         <table>
            <tr>
              <td>Smallest Planet</td>
              <td>Closest to Sun</td>
            </tr>
         </table>
      </info>
   </planet>

   <planet>
       <Name>Earth</Name>
       <info> This is the planet we all live on </info>
   </planet>
</planets>

There is no particular pattern in info field. But whatever is given as the value of info, will be in html.

Is there a way to use XSL and generate the following html code...

<html>
   <head>
      Planets
   </head>
   <body>
      <h1>Mercury</h1>
      <table>
         <tr>
            <td>Smallest Planet</td>
            <td>Closest to Sun</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
      <h1>Earth</h1>
      This is the planet we all live on
   </body>
</html>

Can some body help me with this? I need to get the content/value of <info> as it is (even though it is html) and put it in the resultant html file using XSL.

Thanks,
Neelima

mhkay · May 4th, 2006, 07:29 AM

It's got to be HTML in the form of well-formed XML - you can't have things like <br> without an end tag.

Given that constraint, you can copy it through by using

<xsl:template match="info">
<xsl:copy-of select="child::node()"/>
</xsl:template>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

mhkay · May 4th, 2006, 07:31 AM

And please: don't ask the same question on more than one forum. It means I've just wasted my time replying because you already got a perfectly good answer elsewhere. You're not here to waste people's time.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference