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Dr Madvibe
Dr Madvibe

Reputation: 138

XML XSLT to HTML character escape (not the usual)

I have inherited a static site built by java/xalan from xml pages.

The html tags in the head of each html doc are all the same included when the site is built. I would like to add a tag in individual xml pages that into which I can insert a tag for the head of that html page. In this case a canonical link tag to indicate duplicate content.

In my XML content page, I have added this: 

<insertGoodness>link rel="canonical" href="path" /</insertGoodness>
Note the absence of the greater than or less than characters.

In my XSL template, the node grabs the data from the xml page and outputs the link tag. 

<xsl:variable name="insert_Goodness" select="$content/insertGoodness" />

<xsl:template match="insertGoodness">
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<]]></xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="$insert_Goodness/node()" />
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[>]]>
    </xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

And in my HTML template, I have inserted this in the head section where it should end up. 

<insertGoodness />

Finally, on the html page, I get the output. 

<link rel="canonical" href="path" />

As you can see, I have escaped the greater & less than charaters in the XSL template. Can I do this (put the entire link tag) in my xml content page though as I may want to insert more than one custon tag in the html head section?

I have tried all the escape tricks I can find (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/003e/index.htm) with no luck. Is there a way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1473

Answers (1)

Dr Madvibe
Dr Madvibe

Reputation: 138

I don't know if this is the best way, but it works and it's only temporary.

In my xsl template file

<xsl:template match="insertGoodness">
    <xsl:variable name="tagContent1" select="$content/insertGoodness/node()" />
    <xsl:value-of select="$tagContent1" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
</xsl:template>

And then in the xml page

<insertGoodness>
    <![CDATA[<]]>link rel="canonical" href="path" /<![CDATA[>]]>
</insertGoodness>

Upvotes: 0

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