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Re: searching and replacing
- From: Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 14:56:57 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: Re: [xsl] searching and replacing
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normbishop1@netscape.net wrote:
> I don't have <sub> as a node in the document. What I have is & lt; sup &
> gt; (separated with a space to avoid the email system to convert it to
> <sub>).
OK. There's no better way, except to redesign your XML so that you don't have
pseudo-markup embedded in the text content. There's an equally kludgy and
slightly less reliable way, using disable-output-escaping, but I won't go into
that.
Either way, you're trying to do something that XSLT isn't really designed to
handle. You are trying to parse the text in a text node as if its
pseudo-markup substrings were in fact markup. You basically want to
re-implement an XML parser using XSLT. I would look into shifting the burden
of dealing with this to whoever is feeding you the XML. Make them give you
something that you can work with more easily.
- Mike
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