Question

I have external script result in my XSL template, contains escaped html special characters. How I can unescape it with XSLT and output it to final document?

I have already escaped result, disable-output-escaping="yes" can’t help me.

For example (result from external script):

<!--376473658726587-->
<a href="/">some text</a>

Answer 1

This transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="text"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="script">
  &lt;script>
    <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>
  &lt;/script>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when applied on this XML document (you failed to provide one !!!):

<script>
&lt;!--376473658726587--&gt;
&lt;a href="/"&gt;some text&lt;/a&gt;
</script>

produces the wanted, correct result:

  <script>
    <!--376473658726587--> <a href="/">some text</a>
  </script>