In article <af913759.0406011546.1feda850@p...>,
J Trost <jt6211@e...> wrote:

% I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to do basic string
% replacement using XSLT even though the strings being replaced may
% contain "<" and ">".  Here is my problem:

What you're doing isn't really string replacement, since the things
that need replacing aren't available to the style sheet as strings.

% <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

I don't think the XML declaration is available to XSLT at all.

% <java version="1.4.2_03" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">

For the other things, you could do something like
 <xsl:template match="*">
   <xsl:text>&amp;lt;</xsl:text>
   <xsl:value-of select='name()'/>
   <xsl:for-each select='@*'>
      <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select='name()'/>
      <xsl:text>="</xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select='.'/>
      <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
   </xsl:for-each>
   <xsl:text>&amp;gt;</xsl:text>
   <xsl:apply-templates/>
   <xsl:text>&amp;lt;/</xsl:text>
   <xsl:value-of select='name()'/>
   <xsl:text>&amp;gt;</xsl:text>
 </xsl:template>

This will not give you your original document with <, &, and >
replaced by entities, but it ought to give you an equivalent
document.

I wouldn't even consider using XSLT for this task, by the way.
-- 

Patrick TJ McPhee
East York  Canada
ptjm@i...