HTML Special Character Codes translation in text XSLT 2.0

Question

I receive text from source system with HTML special escape characters in middle of text. Now I need to translate it to the actual character in XSLT 2.0

I/p like

<Data>Lenevo100 f&amp;uuml;r Laser</Data>
<Data>DELL &amp;Agrave;llow Drucker</Data>

and the expected output would be

<DataOutput>Lenevo100 fÜr Laser</DataOutput>
<DataOutput>DELL Àllow Drucker</DataOutput>

If it is always only 2 or 3 values i can do the replace or translate function but the problem is this HTML special code characters are so many .Can any provide the solution to achieve this,

List of HTML special characters code https://www.ou.edu/research/electron/internet/special.shtml

There may be solutions specific to a particular XSLT processor or execution platform. Let us know which product you are using for your XSLT 2.0 library. — Michael Kay
– Michael Kay, Commented Apr 3, 2023 at 13:54
Which XSLT 2 processor is used in Oracle Cloud OIC? Does it allow you to use Java libraries from XSLT so that you could call into an HTML parser? — Martin Honnen
– Martin Honnen, Commented Apr 3, 2023 at 20:27
What about my posted answer, to use the XSLT library parsing HTML/HTML entity references? Can't you use that either? — Martin Honnen
– Martin Honnen, Commented Apr 4, 2023 at 9:45

Martin Honnen · Accepted Answer · 2023-04-03 13:39:17Z

1

David Carlisle has an HTML parser written in XSLT 2.0, it is online at https://github.com/davidcarlisle/web-xslt/blob/main/htmlparse/htmlparse.xsl, you can use it as follows:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:dpc="data:,dpc"
    exclude-result-prefixes="#all"
    version="2.0">
  
  <xsl:import href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davidcarlisle/web-xslt/main/htmlparse/htmlparse.xsl"/>

  <xsl:template match="Data">
    <DataOutput>
      <xsl:value-of select="dpc:htmlparse(., '', true())"/>
    </DataOutput>
  </xsl:template>
  
</xsl:stylesheet>

answered Apr 3, 2023 at 13:39

Martin Honnen

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