Hi all,
Currently I am working on a template solution which transforms contents of a given section (which is in a xml format) with the help of preset XLST files assigned to those sections. The code goes something like this

/Default.aspx

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// Get the sections data in XML format
string xmlData = DataLoader.GetSectionData(sectionName, sectionPath, articleId, pageNumber );

// Get that sections template file
string xslFile = Server.MapPath("/")+"Files\\Templates\\"+ templateFile +"\\Default.xsl";

System.IO.StringReader sr = new System.IO.StringReader(xmlData);

XPathDocument doc = new XPathDocument(sr);

XslTransform trans = new XslTransform();

trans.Load(xslFile);

//Transform it and output as HTML
XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(Response.Output);

writer.Formatting = Formatting.None;

trans.Transform(doc,null,writer);



/SectionData.xml
<Root>
<Article>
<Title>Wonders of life</Title>
<Content>
<!--
[u]Sometimes[u], you wonder how a particular thing went wrong; < b>but most of the time</ b> you wonder how it worked at all
-->
</Content>
</Article></Root>


/SectionTemplate.xslt
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<xsl:value-of select="/Root/Article/Title" />
<br />
<xsl:value-of select="/Root/Article/Content/comment()" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
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What i expected of the tranformer was to spit the contents of the comment tag to the browser without any parsing/escaping so the html formatting of the given article can be maintained, but whatever is done (I even tried with copy-of xsl element to no effect) the output I get is like this in the article page (HTML VIEW of the generated code)

Wonders of life<br />
&lt;u&gt;Sometimes&lt;u&gt;, you wonder how a particular thing went wrong; &lt;b&gt;but most of the time&lt;/b&gt; you wonder how it worked at all


Any help would be appreciated, Thanking you

CreProDes

As far as I know comments are that, comments. Their content is not treated as xml, just text. Embedding html in comment tags is a poor way of structuring data to start with, do you have any control over this?

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Joe

The main reason iam using comment to put the data in is to make it to not treat like a html, this module is a part of an inhouse cms system and the article module has client side wysiwyg editor. so the user will be providing an formatted html for the article and i want to maintain the html format when displaying the article in designated section.


I would like to get any alternate practise for accomplishing the same and would be thankful.


CreProDes