Wendell Piez wrote:
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 3:43 PM

> I think what you need is to write out the "elements" inside 
> the string you 
> want to preserve in escaped form. You can do this with 
> templates easily 
> enough. This means they won't look like elements in your 
> stylesheet -- 
> because you don't want elements in your output. For example 
> (here are a 
> couple of templates I have lying around that will do this):

Thank you for these. They were just what I needed for something
I'm doing.

(Caveat to anyone who might use this: a greater-than sign
is missing in the "write-endtag" template as it appeared
in the email.)

> <xsl:template name="write-starttag">
>    <xsl:text>&lt;</xsl:text>
>    <xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/>
>    <xsl:for-each select="@*">
>      <xsl:call-template name="write-attribute"/>
>    </xsl:for-each>
>    <xsl:text>></xsl:text>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template name="write-endtag">
>    <xsl:text>&lt;/</xsl:text>
>    <xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/>
>    <xsl:text></xsl:text>

A greater-than sign is missing here (lost in the mail?)

> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template name="write-attribute">
>    <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>    <xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/>
>    <xsl:text>="</xsl:text>
>    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>    <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="*" mode="escape-xml">
>    <xsl:call-template name="write-starttag"/>
>    <xsl:apply-templates/>

Btw some will want to add mode="escape-xml" to the above
line for recursive escaping.

>    <xsl:call-template name="write-endtag"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="warning">
>    <xsl:apply-templates mode="escape-xml"/>
> </xsl:template>

Lars


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