{"id":46,"date":"2004-11-16T02:09:03","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T02:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=46"},"modified":"2004-11-16T02:09:03","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T02:09:03","slug":"escaping-entities-using-xslt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Escaping entities using XSLT"},"content":{"rendered":"

While writing the last post I didn’t fancy the idea of hand escaping the HTML entities into the MSN XML output. So I cheated using a funky little piece of XSLT that I cooked up earlier tonight. It’s listed below…
\n
\n<xsl:stylesheet version=\"1.0\">
\n<xsl:output method=\"xml\" indent=\"yes\" omit-xml-declaration=\"no\" doctype-
\nsystem=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\" doctype-public=
\n\"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN\"> <\/xsl:output>
\n<xsl:template match=\"\/\">
\n<xsl:call-template name=\"escapexml\">
\n<xsl:with-param name=\"block\" select=\".\"> <\/xsl:with-param>
\n<\/xsl:call-template>
\n<\/xsl:template>
\n<xsl:template name=\"escapexml\">
\n<xsl:param name=\"block\"> <\/xsl:param>
\n<xsl:for-each select=\"$block\/*|$block\/text()\">
\n<xsl:choose>
\n<xsl:when test=\"self::text()\">
\n<xsl:value-of select=\".\"> <\/xsl:value-of>
\n<\/xsl:when>
\n<xsl:otherwise>
\n<xsl:text> &lt;<\/xsl:text>
\n<xsl:value-of select=\"name(.)\"> <\/xsl:value-of>
\n<xsl:for-each select=\"@*\">
\n<xsl:value-of select=\"concat(' ', name())\">
\n<\/xsl:value-of>
\n<xsl:text> =\"<\/xsl:text>
\n<xsl:value-of select=\".\"> <\/xsl:value-of>
\n<xsl:text> \"<\/xsl:text>
\n<\/xsl:for-each>
\n<xsl:text> &gt; <\/xsl:text>
\n<xsl:choose>
\n<xsl:when test=\"*\">
\n<xsl:call-template name=\"escapexml\">
\n<xsl:with-param name=\"block\" select=\".\">
\n; <\/xsl:with-param>
\n<\/xsl:call-template>
\n<\/xsl:when>
\n<xsl:otherwise>
\n<xsl:value-of select=\".\"> <\/xsl:value-of>
\n<\/xsl:otherwise>
\n<\/xsl:choose>
\n<xsl:text> &lt;\/<\/xsl:text>
\n<xsl:value-of select=\"name(.)\"> <\/xsl:value-of>
\n<xsl:text> &gt; <\/xsl:text>
\n<\/xsl:otherwise>
\n<\/xsl:choose>
\n<\/xsl:for-each>
\n<\/xsl:template>
\n<\/xsl:stylesheet>
\n<\/code>
\nI’ll produce a tidier more beautifying<\/i> version when I get the time but it’s OK for a first attempt and I know of at least one person who’s asked me to do something similiar in the past. And on that note.. it could be time to hit the hay \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While writing the last post I didn’t fancy the idea of hand escaping the HTML entities into the MSN XML output. So I cheated using a funky little piece of XSLT that I cooked up earlier tonight. It’s listed below… <xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″> <xsl:output method=”xml” indent=”yes” omit-xml-declaration=”no” doctype- system=”http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/xhtml1\/DTD\/xhtml1-transitional.dtd” doctype-public= “-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional\/\/EN”> <\/xsl:output> <xsl:template […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}