hi! got a some questions about XSLT. thanks in advance people.

GIVEN:
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="no" encoding="utf-8" indent="no" media-type="text/xml"/>


1. Using XSLT, how do I prevent "empty" elements (elements not having data and not elements with EMPTY declaration) from converting to XML empty syntax?

INPUT:
<entry></entry>

OUTPUT:
<entry/>

DESIRED OUTPUT:
<entry></entry>


2. XSLT converts &apos; and &quot;. Is there a way for XSLT not to convert these two entities. XSLT retains &lt; &gt; and &amp;.

INPUT:
&lt; &gt; &amp; and&quot; stages&apos;

OUTPUT:
&lt; &gt; &amp; and" stages'

DESIRED OUTPUT:
&lt; &gt; &amp; and&quot; stages&apos;


3. I need to preserved certain markups in my XML file. For example, all data within <myTag>. <xsl:copy-of> is not working. How do I do it in XSLT?

INPUT:
<p>data data &hellip;<myTag>&auml;</myTag>&hellip; data data.</p>

OUTPUT:
<p>data data ...<myTag>ä</myTag>... data data.</p>

DESIRED OUTPUT:
<p>data data ...<myTag>&auml;</myTag>... data data.<p>


Again, thanks to everybody!

Hi Arvin!

Q#1: <xsl:copy-of> will not change <element></element> to <element/>. It appears like this in Explorer but look at the source. You'll see it is still <element></element>.

Q#2 and Q#3: The entities are resolved by the XML parser BEFORE your document is passed to the XSLT. I think you'll have to change things a little bit if you want to keep all the markup...

Hope it helped,

Luc

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