How do I preserve markup tags?

Question

I've got an XML document containing news stories, and the body element of a news story contains p tags amongst the plain text. When I use XSL to retrieve the body, e.g.

<xsl:value-of select="body" />

the p tags seem to get stripped out. I'm using Visual Studio 2005's implementation of XSL.

Does anyone have any ideas how to avoid this? Thanks.

Answer 1

Try to use

<xsl:copy-of select="body"/>

instead. From w3schools' documentation on same:

The <xsl:copy-of> element creates a copy of the current node.

Note: Namespace nodes, child nodes, and attributes of the current node are automatically copied as well!