Re: cdata was: XSL and HTML

Hi (notice the ommision of "David", so you don't feel obliged to reply :)

Thanks for clearing that up. As you went over the matter, yes I was aware
of the nature of CDATA, but confess I'd fallen into thinking of it in terms
of node type. Now while techinicaly there is no such thing as a CDATA node
type, practicaly a node that has it's data flagged as CDATA might
pragmatically be thought of as a CDATA node.

Granting this feature wouldn't erode you'er prefered practive in the use of
CDATA.

Now I'm struggling to understand this. In IE5b2 that has <xsl:cdata>

     <xsl:template match="foo">
          <p>
               <![CDATA[ TEST ]]>
          </p>
     </xsl:template>

...produces...

<p>
 TEST
</p>

...whereas...

     <xsl:template match="foo">
          <p>
               <xsl:cdata> TEST </xsl:cdata>
          </p>
     </xsl:template>

...gives...

<p>
<![CDATA[ TEST ]]>
</p>

...How might I produce the second result without <xsl:cdata>?...genuine
question, not a rhetorical one.

As I undertand it, and what I stated in a previous post, placing <![CDATA[
]]> in the XSL flags CDATA in the XSL not the result tree. How can I get
CDATA
in the result tree?

Cheers
     Guy.





xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 01/15/99 01:55:44 AM

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Subject:  Re: cdata was: XSL and HTML





> In a transformation how would you produce CDATA
You can't produce `CDATA' because there is no such thing as CDATA.
CDATA is a flag to a parser to use different rules, but the parsed
result should be the same: character data.
I can write `a' or <![CDATA[a]]> anywhere in my document and I should
get the same document tree. You get ___normal___ character data inside
a CDATA marked section.
The only way to change this is, as Oren said in his reply, to change this
and make  <![CDATA no longer just a parser flag, but to really
generate a new type of node in the parsed result. (This is what happens
in the DOM).
[SNIP]

David
PS
I'm replying since you prefaced your question with `Hi David.'
but I'm really scared posting about arcane SGML details on a list that I
know is being monitored by people like PP and JC. I'm really a TeX
person you know....

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