For the below xml i want to render the unescaped text parts on browser from xslt e.g.:
<one>
<text>
</one>
I want the markup rendered on browser to be:
<text>
But when I use the apply templates which looks like below
<xsl:template match="text()" mode="literalHTML">
<xsl:copy-of select=".">
</xsl:copy-of>
</xsl:template>
The above XML is getting rendered as:
<text>
How can I modify this template so that it prints <text> on browser?
Best Regards,
Keshav
This can be achieved in XSLT 1.0 using quite tricky recursive processing.
Fortunately, one can use FXSL ( a library of XSLT templates) to solve the same task in just a few minutes:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:f="http://fxsl.sf.net/"
xmlns:testmap="testmap"
exclude-result-prefixes="xsl f testmap">
<xsl:import href="str-dvc-map.xsl"/>
<testmap:testmap/>
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="vTestMap" select="document('')/*/testmap:*[1]"/>
<xsl:call-template name="str-map">
<xsl:with-param name="pFun" select="$vTestMap"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pStr" select="/*/text()"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="escape" mode="f:FXSL"
match="*[namespace-uri() = 'testmap']">
<xsl:param name="arg1"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$arg1 = '<'">&lt;</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$arg1 = '>'">&gt;</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="$arg1"/></xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when this transformation is applied on the following XML document:
<one>
<text>
</one>
the wanted result is produced:
&lt;text&gt;
and it displays in the browser as: <text>
The "tricky recursive processing"
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()" name="text">
<xsl:param name="text" select="."/>
<xsl:if test="$text != ''">
<xsl:variable name="first" select="substring($text,1,1)"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$first = '<'">&lt;</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$first = '>'">&gt;</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$first"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:call-template name="text">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring($text,2,(string-length($text)-1) div 2 + 1)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:call-template name="text">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring($text,(string-length($text)-1) div 2 + 3)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Result:
<one>
&lt;text&gt;
</one>
EDIT: A DVC pattern to avoid overflow.
I have also written a solution using recursion earlier but the only thing i was worried about was the performance and if there would be some memory or some stackoverflow because of this. I was wondering if there would be any solution using the <xsl:value-of> or <copy-of>? Also please let me know if there are any improvements possible in the below solution if the recursion could be converted to loop or etc.
<xsl:template match="text()" mode="literalHTML">
<xsl:variable name="txt" select="."/>
<xsl:value-of select="smc:escapeChar(smc:escapeChar(smc:escapeChar($txt,'&','&amp;'),'<','&lt;'),'>','&gt;')"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:function name="smc:escapeChar">
<xsl:param name="txt"/>
<xsl:param name="char"/>
<xsl:param name="subs"/>
<xsl:result>
<xsl:variable name="result">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($txt, $char)">
<xsl:variable name="after" select="substring-after($txt,$char)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($txt,$char)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$subs"/>
<xsl:value-of select="smc:escapeChar($after,$char,$subs)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$txt"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="$result"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:result>
</xsl:function>