Re: [docbook-apps] Including plain text: CDATA

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Michael Wiedmann <>
Date
2003-12-02T08:47:32+00:00
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Re: [docbook-apps] Including plain text: CDATA
Bob Stayton wrote:

> I'm not surprised you didn't get any answers on this one.
> I was hoping someone would have a brilliant solution, but
> it doesn't look like it.  Basically it is really hard to
> get angle brackets as text in your HTML or XML output as
> it breaks the processing model.

Is your explanation valid for output method "text" too (which
is what I have)?

> 2.  You can get literal angle brackets for HTML or XML
> output when your text is contained in:
> 
> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">...</xsl:text>
> 
> But this is tricky to do for your input, because
> you cannot put a <xsl:value-of> element inside
> an <xsl:text> element.

Would it be possible to get the contents of the file in a
variable with <xsl:copy-of> (or similar) and the use this
variable in <xsl:text>...</xsl:text> ?

Michael
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