Subject: Re: Manipulating XSL element From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:21:24 +0100 |
Ciaran, > Is there any way to create an XML element >without it being created by my XSL as an empty tag i.e. ><element/> [You're still working on your XML parser in XSL, then? It is still a bad idea. The more XML-like functionality you put in your pseudo-XML strings, the worse an idea it gets.] The only difference between an empty element and a non-empty element is that an empty element has some content. When you create an element using xsl:element, then anything that you put within the xsl:element (that aren't attributes) becomes its content. For example: <xsl:element name="tag"> This is the content. </xsl:element> gives the output: <tag>This is the content.</tag> In your input pseudo-XML, you have the string coming in that looks like: "<tag>This is the content.</tag>" ***Note for confused readers: that <tag> and </tag> are not actually openning and closing tags, the whole thing is a text string held in an attribute value.*** You will need, in your XSLT-based XML parser, to look at the whole element at once. XSLT cannot create start tags and end tags separately, it creates elements as a whole. You need to write some XSLT code that looks at the string and if the first bit is '<' + a name + '>', then take the substring from the beginning of the string to the bit in the string that is '</' + the name + '>', and process it to produce an element with the relevant content. The problem is that if you have nested pseudo-elements with the same name then you need something so much more sophisticated that it is nigh-on impossible. I feel that offering any more assistance than that would be like encouraging you to go down a road that I know ends in a cliff. You should not be writing an XML parser in XSLT. It's an interesting theoretical challenge, but it's just completely unnecessary. Sorry, Jeni XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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