add HTML tags via XSLT

chopswil2 · November 4th, 2007, 12:50 PM

I'm trying to use XSLT to format XML to HTML.
The thing is I need to format certain nodes by adding HTML tags to the node text
For example, I need to replace one or more strings of "B, " with "B, ".
and when it is outputed to HTML I need the tags to read as tags and put the superscript around the "B"

<stuff>item3B, item2, item1B, item4</stuff>
need to be in html
item3B, item2, item1B, item4

How to do so would be great!
thanks

mhkay · November 4th, 2007, 01:06 PM

In XSLT 2.0:

<xsl:analyze-string select="stuff" regex="B">
 <xsl:matching-substring>
 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </xsl:matching-substring>
 <xsl:non-matching-substring>
 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>

In 1.0 it's considerably harder; you need to use recursive templates to process the string using substring-before, contains, and substring-after. There are examples in my book.

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

chopswil2 · November 5th, 2007, 09:24 AM

I tried that but I got an "Error during XSLT transformation: XSLT transformation failed." error

I'm opening the xml file on FireFox 2.0.0.9
Ideas?

my test files
XML
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="XSL_Test.xsl"?>

<NewDataSet>
 <statblock>
 <stuff>item3B, item2, item1B, item4</stuff>
 </statblock>
</NewDataSet>

XSL
<xsl:stylesheet
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 version="1.0" >

 <xsl:output method="html" />

 <xsl:template match="/">
 <html>
 <body>
 <h5>
 <xsl:analyze-string select="stuff" regex="B">
 <xsl:matching-substring>
 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </xsl:matching-substring>
 <xsl:non-matching-substring>
 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </xsl:non-matching-substring>
 </xsl:analyze-string>
 </h5>
</body>
 </html>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

samjudson · November 5th, 2007, 09:30 AM

That's because Firefox doesn't support XSLT 2.0, only 1.0.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/