XSLT Escape specific Node

Marzipan · March 23rd, 2012, 02:07 PM

I would like to take the "html" nodes in a document and replace them with escape characters to store the entire note in a table. (any other suggestions).
Source is an Infopath document.

<my:AdditionalIssues>
<my:IssueFailure>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:space="preserve"><div>Issue one</div></html>
</my:IssueFailure>

.....

</my:AdditionalIssues>

Would look like

<my:AdditionalIssues>
<my:IssueFailure>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:space="preserve"><div>Issue one</div></html>
</my:IssueFailure>
.....

</my:AdditionalIssues>

Martin Honnen · March 23rd, 2012, 02:13 PM

Well escaping structured markup is usually a loss of information and results in struggles to unescape it back but there are approaches to serialize nodes with pure XSLT, like http://lenzconsulting.com/xml-to-string/. There are also XSLT processor specific extension functions.