Re: [xsl] Turning escaped mixed content back to XML

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Martin Holmes wrote:

> I'm trying to process an ODS spreadsheet which has <text:p> nodes which
> contain embedded mixed-content markup in escaped form:
>
> <text:p>indicates the amount by which this zone has been rotated
> clockwise, with respect to the normal orientation of the parent
> &lt;gi&gt;surface&lt;/gi&gt; element as implied by the dimensions given
> in the &lt;gi&gt;msDesc&lt;/gi&gt; element or by the coordinates of the
> &lt;gi&gt;surface&lt;/gi&gt; itself. The orientation is expressed in arc
> degrees.</text:p>
>
> I need to turn this back into parsed XML for insertion into XML
> documents. I'm using Saxon 9.4 with XSLT 2 (and I can use 3 if
> necessary).

I tried

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
  xmlns:text="http://example.com";
  xmlns:tei="http://example.com/tei";
  version="3.0">

<xsl:template match="text:p">
  <tei:p>
    <xsl:copy-of select="parse-xml-fragment(.)"/>
  </tei:p>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

with Saxon 9.5 PE and got


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><tei:p 
xmlns:text="http://example.com"; xmlns:tei="http://example.com/tei";>indicate
s the amount by which this zone has been rotated clockwise, with respect 
to the normal orientation of the parent <gi>sur
face</gi> element as implied by the dimensions given in the 
<gi>msDesc</gi> element or by the coordinates of the <gi>sur
face</gi> itself. The orientation is expressed in arc degrees.</tei:p>

That has XML elements and not escaped markup so should do, you will need 
to change the namespaces and maybe use exclude-result-prefixes.