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How to disable output escaping while mapping XML to XML
Question asked by Daniel Hug - 4/10/2024 at 4:43 PM
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While mapping XML to XML, I want to achieve disable-output-escaping="yes" for some nodes. How can I do that?

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Hi,

You would need to manually edit the generated xslt.

May I ask why you would want to do this?
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Daniel Hug Replied
Thanks. Use-case is preparing files for translation. HTML is embedded in XML, twice encoded, i.e. <p>Dies ist sehr umständlich</p> is encoded as <p>Dies ist sehr umst&auml;ndlich</p> and then as &lt;p&gt;Dies ist sehr umst&amp;auml;ndlich&lt;/p&gt;, so as not to break the XML.
The first encoding is necessary because of HTML. (What if wanted to write “The paragraph element looks like this: <p>.” — obviously the carets need to be encoded.)
The second encoding is necessitated by embedding it in the XML. (This might all be glaringly obvious if you are a specialist, which I am not.)
The translation software parses the XML and hands over the translatable content to a content processor, which decodes the HTML. In this second step, &lt; will be decoded to <, but &amp;auml; will be decoded to &auml;, which is awkward for the translator to work with.
In order to overcome this, all twice-escaped characters have to be unescaped once. (This has to be reverted on the return trip, of course. Currently all done with Regex.)
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Liquid Support Replied
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OK, thanks, I have asked the dev team to review this request.
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Liquid Support Replied
Employee Post
I can confirm that this new functionality will be available in the next release.
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Daniel Hug Replied
Wow, you are amazing! Is that the next major version or the next minor update - when (approx.) will this feature be available?
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This functionality has been added in v20.7.9...


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