Printing an XML Node with HTML markup

Anon

Howdy,

I have an XML document consisting of nodes that contain HTML markup.
For example:

&lt;whatsnew>
  &lt;news>
    A &lt;em>really&lt;/em> funny thing happened on the way to the forum.
  &lt;/news>
  &lt;news>
    For more information, &lt;a href="newpage.phtml">look here&lt;/a>.
  &lt;/news>
&lt;whatsnew>

What I'm ultimately trying to do is display the content of the
<news> node, WITH all of the included markup. I'm using the DOM
XML functions (PHP 4.04, I think, but any version would do) to
parse this information from a file into various substructures.
However, my attempts to get at that node's content is coming up
just a little short.

I've been trying two different approaches. First, I was trying
to use the content() method on the <news> node; however, this
stops as soon as it gets to the first markup tag, since that's a
new child. If I concatenate the content() results of ALL
children of <news>, I get the text with the markup stripped out.

Then I started trying to use dumpmem(), however this only works
on a DOM Document. This seems like it would be the better
approach to take, but I can't figure out how to make a DOM
Document from only a subnode of the original document. I can use
xpath_eval to get the exact section I want, but that returns an
array of nodes, which I can't get into a DOM Document.

So, how can I pull this off?

Thanks in advance,
- Keith

Anon

uhh... dom won't due for what your trying to do. if its possible at all.. it will be a royal pain in the butt.

try parsing the xml with an xsl document.. use an <xsl:copy-of select="xpath"> tag.

you can use the xslt_process() function to do this (if you have the right libraries compiled in)

Anon

Hi,
Can we reassign the value to a variable which has been declared with some other inital value.

ex:
<xsl:variable name="ct"> 0</xsl:variable>

can we reassign like the following

<xsl:value-of select=ct="$ct + string-length(.//ENTITY_INDIVidUAL)"/>

If i use like the above sytnax , it will not work.

please provide me solution for the above.
(tell me how to reassign the value to a varaible)

Anon

no unfortunately in xsl you can not reasign a variable. once its is set, its set.

try playing with templates. a variable is only readable inside the template its it.. so (potentally) can possibly have different values in the same document.