How to unencode escaped XML with xQuery
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I have a variable in xQuery of type xs:string with the value of an encoded HTML snippet (the content of a twitter tweet). It looks like this:
Headlines-Today • AP sources: <b>Obama</b> pick for Justice post withdraws : News - Rest Of World - <a href="http://shar.es/mqMAG">http://shar.es/mqMAG</a>
When I try to write this out in an HTML block, I need the string to be unescaped so that the HTML snippet will be interpreted by the browser. Instead the string is getting written out as is and the browser is rendering it as just text (so you see <a href="blah.... ). Here's how I'm writing out this string:
{$entry/atom:content/text()}
How can I have the escaped characters unencoded so it writes < rather tha < ?
I've tried to do a replacelike this but it always replaces the < with < !
fn:replace($s, "<", "<")
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