Displaying embedded html from an xml file through an xsl style sheet

**JoePrice** · Sep 23, 2003 02:34

Hi chaps

I've got an XML file, within that file i've embedded html code using the
<![CDATA[ ]]>
tag

I'm displaying that xml file through a browser using an xsl style sheet. However it is displaying any html from the xml file as text, ie its displaying as text <br/> and <b> etc

How can i tell my xml file to display the html tags as html and not display them as text?

Many thanks

**JoePrice** · Sep 23, 2003 07:54

solution found!

<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes"........

**arunnc** · Jan 28, 2005 17:18

Hi Guys,

I have a scenario:

XML File:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="mystyle.xsl" ?>
<reportpage>
<name>Bid Administration Report Summary</name>
<htmldata> <b>abcd></b> should appear bold. any html tags can appear here.</htmldata>
</reportpage>

I wanted to know if anything in <htmldata> tag, can be made to be processed as HTML. Meaning 'abcd' should appear bold in the browser. Right now, it is ignoring the bold tag. Below is the xsl i am using. Please let me know if this is possible guys.

My XSL file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns

sl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="reportpage">
<html>
<head>
<title><xsl:value-of select="name" /></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 align="center"><xsl:value-of select="name" /></h1>

<xsl:value-of select="htmldata" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks in advance,

Arun

**Brak** · Jan 31, 2005 21:50

The better solution is to encapsulate the data like so:

Code:

 <?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="mystyle.xsl" ?>
<reportpage>
<name>Bid Administration Report Summary</name>
<htmldata> <![CDATA[ <b>abcd></b> should appear bold. any html tags can appear here. ]]></htmldata>
</reportpage>

As, technically speaking, you are not adding a <b> element to the <htmldata> block, but rather adding data - so a CDATA section is preferred.

... but if you really wanted to keep it how you have it, just replace

Code:

 <xsl:value-of select="htmldata" disable-output-escaping="yes" />

with

Code:

 <xsl:copy-of select="htmldata" />

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