Hello people!

I know that disable-output-escaping is not allowed on the copy-of element but how do I do to make a deep copy of a node with all its children including mark-up and transform it into another XML document?

I have my xml (containing xsl) for example:

<lokk-n-feel>
  <global>
    <xslt><![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="foo">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
    ]]></xslt>
  </global>

  <instance id="1">
    <xslt><![CDATA[
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="bar">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
    ]]></xslt>
  </instance>
<lokk-n-feel>

How do I make a deep copy of <global> and all its children including the xsl unparsed? When I parse it (using Saxon 6.5.2 or MSXML 4.0), my stylesheet gets all messed up (as it says it would be in the XSLT spec.).

Thanks in advance
/Andrin

Hi!

I'm not sure if that's what you want, but check this out:

input XML
***********

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<lokk-n-feel>
    <global>
        <xslt><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:template match="/"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template><xsl:template match="foo"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>]]></xslt>
    </global>
    <instance id="1">
        <xslt><![CDATA[<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:template match="/"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template><xsl:template match="bar"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>]]></xslt>
    </instance>
</lokk-n-feel>

XSLT
********

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output indent="yes" encoding="utf-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="//global"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="global">
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

output
*************

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<global>
    <xslt>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;&lt;xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;&lt;xsl:template match="/"&gt;&lt;xsl:apply-templates/&gt;&lt;/xsl:template&gt;&lt;xsl:template match="foo"&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select="."/&gt;&lt;/xsl:template&gt;&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;</xslt>
</global>

Tell me if it's what you want. I hope it helped.

Luc

Dijkstra's law on Programming and Inertia:

If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, don't try to write it.

Hi! It's me again!

If you want to extract your XSLT from the output above, use the following stylesheet:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="xslt">
    <xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Have a nice day,

Luc

Dijkstra's law on Programming and Inertia:

If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, don't try to write it.

Hello Luc

Thanks for you to answer me.

I want to get the XSL inside the CDATA unparsed. Now all < and > are replaced with &lt; and &gt;. This I don´t want. To be clear, I want this output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<global>
  <xslt><![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="foo">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
  ]]></xslt>
</global>


But thanks anyway :-)
/Andrin

It's not really a deep copy, but still it does what you wanted.

******** XSLT ***************
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output indent="yes" encoding="utf-8"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="//global"/>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="global">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="xslt"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="xslt">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="xslt"/>
            <xsl:variable name="xslContent">
                <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
            </xsl:variable>
            <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;![CDATA[</xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="$xslContent" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
            <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]&gt;</xsl:text>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Dijkstra's law on Programming and Inertia:

If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, don't try to write it.

This code seems to work on a task I'm working on as well. There I have a view element containing xml elements, that I want to go straight (copied) to the output while others are being processed and CDATA content copied to the output. Example:

<part type="text">
 <view>
   <h3>Welcome to this site Mr:
    <part type="math"><view>[CDATA[<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <mrow>
    <msqrt>
      <mrow>
        <mi>&epsilon;</mi>
      </mrow>
    </msqrt>
  </mrow>
</math>
]]
    </view>
   </part>
  </h3>
 </view>
<part>


From that I would like to have:

<h3>Welcome to Mr.
 <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  <mrow>
    <msqrt>
      <mrow>
        <mi>#949;</mi>
      </mrow>
    </msqrt>
  </mrow>
 </math>
</h3>

I'm almost there. The only thing I'm missing is the <h3></h3> tags. How can I get that to the output?

To be more precise I would like to copy the entire view part after extracting the CDATA-section. My idea is to make a copy-of a variable containing the view with the extracted CDATA.

Any ideas or suggestion?

Thanks

Morten Andersen