XSLT transform with source containing < and>

Question

I have an input XML in the format below:

   msoft, Version=5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
            


        

Answer 1

I'll work with the example you provided, and assume it is well-formed. For that I added four extra lines to your source, which is now:

    msoft, Version=5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
    BT
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        <AppData xmlns="http://tempuri.org/AppData.xsd">
          <Readers>
            <Id>1234</Id>
            <Port>6500</Port>
            <Type>M200</Type>
            <Active>Yes</Active>
          </Readers>
          <Readers>
          </Readers>
        </AppData>
    

You will need either an XSLT 2.0 processor or an XSLT 1.0 extension. Here is a solution using XSLT 2.0:

It actually processes your data twice. The angle-brackets inside the contents of Configuration are converted using the character-map. The result is placed inside a variable $input which is converted to a node using the document() function.

Since your data is in a namespace, it's necessary to prefix the XPath expressions with it. The namespace declaration was removed from the result using exclude-result-prefixes="tempuri".