[thelist] XML / XSLT outputting HTML entities

Rick den Haan rick.denhaan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 23 17:53:41 CDT 2005


Hi Andrew,

Have you tried putting it in a CDATA section[0]? E.g.:

<entry>
<body><![CDATA[this is part of an xml file<br /><br />etc]]></body>
</entry>

HTH,
Rick.

[0]: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-cdata-sect

On 4/24/05, Andrew Martin <andrewdmartin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got an xml file with HTML tags in the elements; something like this:
> <entry>
> <body>this is part of an xml file<br /><br />etc</body>
> </entry>
> 
> When it's rendered, it just shows up all on one line and strips the
> HTML.  I've tried to change the xml output method from xml to html but
> that just renders the actual html entities rather than the line
> breaks.
> 
> Is there a good way around this?


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