I'm fairly new to xml/xsl structures...sorry if this is a dumb question?

I have a xsl doc:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="content">
<xsl:if test="header_image/@path != ''">
<img src="{header_image/@path}" width="393" alt="{header_image/@alt}" /><br />
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="subheader/@path != ''">
<img src="{subheader/@path}" width="393" alt="{subheader/@alt}" />
</xsl:if>
<br />
<xsl:for-each select="article">
<p><a href="#{@id}"><xsl:if test="date != ''"><xsl:value-of select="date" /><br /></xsl:if><xsl:value-of select="title" /></a></p>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:for-each select="article">
<p><a name="{@id}"></a><xsl:if test="date != ''"><xsl:value-of select="date" /><br /></xsl:if><xsl:value-of select="title" /></p>
<p><xsl:copy-of select="text" /></p>

<p><a href="#top">Return to top ^</a></p>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:if test="footer != ''">
<span class="small"><xsl:copy-of select="footer" /></span><br /><br />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

its pulled into a .asp page using .xml page with html here:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<content>
<header_image path="" alt="" />
<subheader path="" alt="" />
<article id="1">
<date></date>
<title>Q: What is the difference between N^DHA and N³?</title>
<text><b>A:</b> For a comparison chart of N^DHA and N³, <a href="http://www.website.com/N_Chart.pdf">click here</a>
</text>
</article>
</content>

For a FAQ's type page that lists all articles at the top and click on it to reveal the answer down below..and has "back to top"

But inside the <title> tags I have ^DHA and they wont' show on page? But do fine in the <text> tags?

What am i doing wrong? Or what can I change to make the subscripts show in the <title> tags on the site?

any help is appreciated...thx

You just need to change the <xsl:value-of> to a <xsl:copy-of>, exactly like is used to copy the text element.

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thx for the reply.

I tried changing the "value" to "copy" and it does allow the <sup> but it kills making the <title> click-able for the FAQ page.

But the funny thing is I changed the "value" to "copy" for the <date> tags...and in my xml with the html..I "cut" out the text with the <sup> from the <title> and "pasted it in the <date> tags and it works and is still clickable.

I guess I can go and do that to all my xml docs..but I still don't know why? Or it of course would of been easier to just change the 1 template doc..not all xml pages on the site pasted into the <date> instead of the <title>

Could've it been the if=test tag? maybe I'll go and try that switch on the title

-Dan

tried changing the if statement onto the title still didn't work....but for some reason it works it works on the date.

I guess I can go and change all the text in the <title> tags to <date> tags...but I still would like to know why? if anyone knows..otherwise this will work for now.

Thx

<xsl:copy-of> outputs an exact copy of the node you select, so it will also be outputting <title> or <text> element. If you don't want it to output them then you would use something like <xsl:copy-of select="title/node()"/>.

If this doesn't fix the problem then you would have to tell us what you want the output to actually look like before we could provide you with a solution.

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/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

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ahahaaa!

That is it..it works perfect!
Sweet thx.

At least its showing all up correctly and linking. I'll have to go test all the pages across the site to make sure they all took it ok...but looks good.

great job...thx. this is a great site...I'll keep it.

-Dan