RE: [xsl] XML doc in CDATA section

[Curtis Burisch <burisch at clara dot co dot uk>]

>> I've got an XML document within a CDATA section. Is it possible to
>> parse and transform this document in a single pass, without having 
to
>> first strip the document out and write it to another file?
>>
>Why is it within a CDATA section? CDATA is there to allow non-XML text 
to be
>embedded in XML; using it to embed XML seems completely crazy, though 
it has
>become highly fashionable. Apart from anything else, it falls apart if 
the
>nested document itself contains a CDATA section.

I couldn't agree more -- it is bizarre and unorthodox, but 
unfortunately not my decision. Hmm... I'm going to have a go at getting 
them to change this. I believe it is pure laziness in their 
specification -- they didn't want to have to remove the <!DOCTYPE> 
directive in the original xml doc they've put into the CDATA section, 
as I believe this would cause it to fail to be parsed (I may be wrong?)


>Try writing a Perl script that removes the "<![CDATA[" and "]]>" 
delimiters,
>to create the document that you should have been using in the first 
place.

Sigh. Yes, pre-processing it will have to be, unless I can get them to 
change the spec. (very unlikely!!)

Thanks for your reply & best regards,
Curtis Burisch

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