Dear all, I have in the data I want to transform with XSLT many <, >, & meaningfully used which I want to escape to be able to process the text: what is the best way to do this?

I have things like this

$do]mus <b=R>ito(!) consi[&

and I want to convert the meaning they have in XML nodes like

<gap/><supplied>do</supplied>mus<choice><reg>b</reg><sic>R</sic></choice>ito consil<gap/>

Thank you very much for any suggestion

I understand I might be loosing my self in a glass of water, with this question but if anybody could please point me at least to somewhere, that would really help me. Thank you very much! Pietro

I can't work out what transformation you want to apply from your input and output (it's hard to see how they relate.). But since the input is non-XML, you won't find XSLT very useful for the task.

You haven't supplied enough information to assess how you should parse the input, for example whether it can be done with regular expressions or whether you need a recursive descent parser. That depends on the detailed parse rules

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Thank you, I will do it otherwise.