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Re: Missing CDATA sections
Ok, crappy example, but the error still occurs if you wrap it in paras or
whatever,
I forgot to validate the example before I posted it that's all, try it with
para's round,
on my system it still misses out the CDATA section, in fact I just converted
a whole
book and then had to go through re-inserting the CDATA sections which was
ridiculous...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
To: "fyl2xp1" <vnhu38f93@subdimension.com>; "docbook-apps"
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Missing CDATA sections
> At 3:15 PM +0100 7/11/02, fyl2xp1 wrote:
> If I process this file:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
> "c:/docbook/docbkx412/docbookx.dtd">
> <article>
> <sect1><title>Error Prone</title>
> <![CDATA[
> Im going to dissapear!
> ]]>
> <para>
> Yes that's right ladies and gentlemen, CDATA is gone!
> </para>
> </sect1>
> </article>
>
>
>
> Wild guess: it's a style sheet issue, but also an issue with your
> code. I don't think that's valid. The sect1 element does not allow
> mixed content. Thus it' not a huge surprise the stylesheet throws it
> away.
>
> Remember, CDATA sections are syntax sugar. They are *not* elements.
> In this case, they are not substitutes for a para. I suspect if you
> wrap a para around the CDATA section like this, everything will work:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
> "c:/docbook/docbkx412/docbookx.dtd">
> <article>
> <sect1><title>Error Prone</title>
> <para>
> <![CDATA[
> Im going to dissapear!
> ]]>
> </para>
> <para>
> Yes that's right ladies and gentlemen, CDATA is gone!
> </para>
> </sect1>
> </article>
>
>
> Debugging tip: when the stylesheets aren't giving you what you
> expect, validate your documents and correct any errors you find. In
> my experience this fixes about half of the problems I initially
> attribute to the stylesheets.
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