Html to XML

stevoie · February 6th, 2006, 08:22 AM

Hey,

I'm having a problem with my XSLT.
Here's the html section:

Code:

<p>
this is a test message
<a href="nextpage.html">Next page</a>
end of message
</p>

Required XML output

Code:

<text>
this is a test message
<link des="nextpage.html">Next page</link>
end of message
</text>

I can't seem to pull the value of the p element properly. it returns

Code:

"this is a test message Next page end of message"

but i want the <link> element in place of the Next page words.

Any ideas?

Stevoie

mhkay · February 6th, 2006, 10:11 AM

It's always difficult to find bugs in people's code when they don't show you the code, but as a completely blind guess, you're using xsl:value-of instead of xsl:copy-of.

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

stevoie · February 6th, 2006, 12:37 PM

unfortunately thats not exactly what i want. your right i was using xsl:value-of to pull out the value. but when i switch to xsl:copy-of, it just prints out the value of the <p> element with the <a href...></a> element embedded in it. i need to replace the <a href...></a> element with the <link...></link> element.

i can do it if the html was written as:

Code:

<p>
<text>this is a test message</text>
<a href="nextpage.html">Next page</a>
<text>end of message</text>
</p>

it's because the <a href..> is embedded inside the value of <p> that is causing me problems.
any ideas?