Ok for the past few weeks ive been playing around with XML/XSL,XSLT etc, and have come to a big brick wall which has no doors and its too high to climb over :p

Anyway getting to my point..

I have an XML file e.g.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<person>
  <name>Tim</name>
  <info><![CDATA[<strong>T</strong>im is older then me]]></info>
  <age>23</age>
</person>

Yea great example :glare: anyway now to where XML gets interesting XSLT

Now the result i want from this XSLT file is to parse that CDATA <strong> etc as HTML so Tim should be

Tim is older then me

Now the basic XSLT file for this example

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- pretend i have an stylesheet declaration here -->
<person>
  <name>Tim</name>
  <info><![CDATA[<strong>T</strong>im is older then me]]></info>
  <age>23</age>
</person>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/person">
  Name: <xsl:value-of select="name" /><br />
  Info: <xsl:value-of select="info" /><br />
  Age: <xsl:value-of select="age" /><br />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

*example probably doesnt work as i didnt test it :eek:

Ok however that will print something as follows

Name: Tim
Info: <strong>T</strong> is older then me
Age: 23

However i should be seeing something like this

Name: Tim
Info: Tim is older then me
Age: 23

Ive tried everything possible while keeping it valid, taking out the CDATA bit and using xsl:output with method html seems to work a test but im trying to keep it valid since its going to be used in an RSS Feed later on.

Ok so firstly is what i want possible?
is this going to be the worlds biggest hack job?
or should i just accept what i have or make it invalid?

Thanks.

    Take a look at this document (mainly pages 5-7). It is taken from the web publishing course that I took in my first year here at Uni and shows how to do XML/XSL stuff quite nicely.

      Thanks for the PDF unfortunately no help for my situation 🙁

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

        ?
        Maybe I'm just going wonky.

          Originally posted by Weedpacket
          Maybe I'm just going wonky.

          It's been said before... 😃

            I tried that also with <xsl:output> to no luck 🙁 maybe i just have to be satisfied with XSLT not being this all great and wonderful thing or hope something is implemented that I want in the next version :glare:

            Thanks anyways 😉

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