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Re: CDATA headache

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• To: mike.odlingsmee@gmail.com
• Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:05:37 +0100

> wondering whether anyone could point me to the relevant place which
> specifies that this is expected behaviour of the parser/xslt
> processor.

The XSLT engine has no information about whether CDATA was used so when
it linearises the tree it just does whatever it does, it has to quote <
somehow, but it is free to use cdtat sections or numeric or entity
references. This is exactly the same as using ' or " around attribute
values, the XSLT engine can not preserve those either: it will most
likely always use ".

What you can do is tell the XSLT engine to always use CDATA sections for
those elements add cdata-section-elements="value" to the xslt
stylesheet.

David



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