Re: Encoded characters and CDATA

In both cases, your CDATA section is not doing anything useful.
<![CDATA just changes the meaning of , and & to be equivalent to &lt;
and &amp; as your string "sample.htm " doesn't contain either
& or < you can remove the CDATA.

I suspect that you want to trim white space from your element, with
 <xsl:value-of select="normailze-space(image_url")"/>
David

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