Transform encoded XML element using XSLT

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XML File

<article>
    <paragraph>
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    </paragraph>
</article>

HTML output

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I want to transform <b> to the HTML element <b> using XSLT. Please suggest any XSLT code.

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Michael Kay · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-20 21:48:40Z

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It's bad XML design, of course, to include an escaped XML document embedded in another document like this. But it happens all the time. If the escaped tags are HTML and you want to copy them direct to the output, then disable-output-escaping will sometimes do the trick - but not always, because it only works when you are serializing. If you run an XSLT transformation in Mozilla then the output HTML is rendered without ever being serialized, so disable-output-escaping has no effect. XSLT pros therefore tend to discourage its use.

The better approach is to reparse the text that contains escaped tags. There's no standard way of doing this until XSLT 3.0 (which has a parse-xml() function), but you can often do it using extension functions.

answered Jun 20, 2013 at 21:48

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