Display as HTML

austinf · March 6th, 2008, 09:18 AM

Hi i have created a DOM object using java. In this i have a description element created which actually has HTML tags.
I have used the following line

Code:

desc.appendChild(xmlDoc.createTextNode("<p><strong>this is a test</strong></p><p>Second line</p>"));

When I use XSL and try to display the content using

Code:

<xsl:value-of select="desc" disable-output-escaping="yes" />

it displays as textual data i.e. if i view the source all the '<' and '>' are converted to '<' and '&gt'. I actually dont want this. I want to remain as entered so that when displayed it displays the content as rich text, in this case bold and in seperate lines.

could anyone suggest how this can be done.

Thanks a lot in advance

mhkay · March 6th, 2008, 09:27 AM

Best approach is to create a more sensible document in the first place: having markup within a text node, rather than having a nested structure of element nodes, is not a good way to represent your data.

If you really must do it that way, then serializing using disable-output-escaping should work, provided that it's supported in the environment where you are using it. It doesn't work everywhere.

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