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Display XML in HTML files

While working with XSLT templates, I came across an interesting problem. I am using an XSLT template to transform an XML file into HTML. However, for debugging purposes I need to see the original XML and since the generation process is done on a web server (like Resin does), it is not easy to get it. The solution: display the original XML file inside the output HTML itself. As it turns out, this was not easy since it requires to change all “<” and “>” to use entities like “<” and “>”. In XSLT, the solution looks as follows (another solution would be to use JavaScript to escape this client-side):

<xsl:template match="*">
<<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>>
<xsl:value-of select="text)"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>><BR/>
</xsl:template>


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