display out of order html elements?

chobo · March 31st, 2008, 09:22 PM

Hi, is it possible to add html style tags to an xml file, and then have those tags be present in the output of a transformation?

Example

Code:

<Article>
  <Title>...</Title>
  <Category>...</Category>
  <Body>
    <p>stuff</p>
    <ol><li>item</li></ol>
    <p>stuff</p>
  </Body>
</Article>

How could I make a style sheet to parse the <p> and <ol> elements as html, and in that order. This is just one example, in some cases there may be img tags as well. Is this even possible to do?

samjudson · April 1st, 2008, 02:12 AM

Yes it certainly is. Simply use the <xsl:copy-of> or <xsl:copy> instructions (rather than something like the <xsl:value-of> instruction, which wont output the tags).

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

chobo · April 1st, 2008, 02:28 AM

Sweet! it works better then expected :) Thank you so much!