How To Display HTML from a field in XSL Style Sheet

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:38:13 GMT

We are currently working on a project were we are using Community Server and CMS. Users are able to post a message which is stored in Community Server and connected to an article inside CMS. It is also possible to use an RSS feed.

One of the tags inside the RSS feed contained html tags. This is content from a html editor control during the posting. The problem we got was that the html tags were displayed as normal text in stead of incorparated into the generated html.

The following modification (see bold) was needed to incorporate the html inside the field "description" in the html page using XSL.

<xsl:stylesheet>
   <xsl:output method="html" />
   <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:for-each select="rss/channel/item">
         <div class="reactie-oneven">
         <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
         <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td width="100%">
               <div class="content-brood">
               <strong>Door <span class="content-reacties-auteur">
               <xsl:value-of select="dc:creator" /></span> op
               <span class="content-reacties-datum">
               <xsl:value-of select="pubDate" /></span></strong><br></br>
               <xsl:value-of select="description" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
               </div>
            </td>
         </tr>
         </table>
         </div>
      </xsl:for-each>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The actual xml looks like:

<rss>
   <channel>
      <item>
         <title>Reactie op Yes</title>
         <link>http://test.yes.nl/yescafe/forums/22/ShowForum.aspx</link>
         <description><P>...</P></description>
      </item>
   </channel>
</rss>

More information can be found in a knowledge base article of microsoft

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q264665

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How To Display HTML from a field in XSL Style Sheet