Ah, no.  My message got "corrupted" inadvertently, so my problem came
out somewhat unclear.  The problem is that the contents of the "value"
element is not "<userid>98765</userid>", but the same string with the
XML-significant characters escaped to their character entities.

When I view the notes in the list, I see that my original note seems to
convey that, but in your response, the part that quotes my original note
seems to have "unescaped" that piece of the XML content.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cknell@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:15 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Techniques for transforming content like
> 
> This stylesheet will produce the transformation you asked for.
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     <xsl:apply-templates />
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="other">
>     <other>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="key" />
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="value" />
>     </other>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="key">
>     <key>
>       <xsl:value-of select="." />_<xsl:value-of
> select="name(../value/node()[position() = 1])" />
>     </key>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="value">
>     <value>
>       <xsl:value-of select="./userid" />
>     </value>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> --
> Charles Knell
> cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:     "Karr, David" <David.Karr@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent:     Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:26:43 -0700
> To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:   Techniques for transforming content
> like"<tag>content</tag>" to "<tag>content</tag>"
> 
> I have a requirement to write XSLT transformers for XML documents,
some
> of whose element contents can consist of "encoded" XML, like this:
> 
> <other>
>  <key>stuff</key>
>  <value><userid>98765</userid></value>
> </other>
> 
> We need to transform this to this:
> 
> <other>
>  <key>stuff_userid</key>
>  <value>98765</value>
> </other>
> 
> There's no avoiding that this will be messy, so I'm only aiming to
clean
> up the worst part of this process: how I parse the "encoded" XML.  A
POC
> for this is just using "substring-after" and "substring-before" to set
> the pieces into variables.  Is there a better way to parse content
like
> this?
> 
> 
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