Re: [xsl] CDATA back to its original shape

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

    I have a problem using CDATA in my XML document.

    I know that this code used in XSL...

      <object>
	  <![CDATA[
	      <more_tags>anything</more_tags>
	  ]]>
      </object>

     ...will give me the output that I want:

      <object>
	      <more_tags>anything</more_tags>
      </object>


No it won't!! It will produce something like


      <object>
	      &lt;more_tags&gt;anything&lt;/more_tags>
      </object>

     .. but I would like to have the code with CDATA in my XML document
   instead, retrieve it from XSL and transform it to its original shape
   again producing HTML with the tags I had in XML. Can I do it?

    Thank you.


An XSL engine does not see your CDATA marked sections any more than it
sees whether you use " or ' around attribute values. All those things
are resovled by the parser before the input tree is constructed for XSL.

input of <![CDATA[ this <x>xxx</x>]]> produces _exactly_ the same
input to XSL as    this &lt;x>xxx&lt;/x&gt;  so there is no way for an
XSLT engine to distinguish them.

If you said _why_ you wanted to use CDATA marked sections someone may
suggest what approach you should take, but note that CDATA sections are
just a authoring shortcut to avoid writing lots of &lt; unline elements
or attributes they have no effect on the actual result of the parse in
the XPath tree model of an XML document.

David

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