Re: prevent xslt ant task using xalan from converting

Thanks for the reply.I cannot change the input.The xslt is to add code before and after many jsp pages.I cannot determine beforehand what the cdata-section-elements will be for pages which will be created in the future.

The problem with &lt; instead of <![CDATA[ being used is that it puts /r/n after some data in some of the CDATA sections.
eg:
<![CDATA[<input type="hidden" name="controllerLocation" value="]]>
          <c:out value="${tabLocationUrl}"/>
          <![CDATA["/>]]>

gets converted to data but there is a /r/n added at the end now and it totally screws up my application logic.I just  want the xslt processor to not change the CDATA sections if possible.

> 
> > How do I prevent the CDATA from being transformed into spaces ?
> ?? It isn't being transformed into spaces.
> The sole purpose of CDATA is to "auto" quote < and & XPath does not
> record whether a < character was input as &lt; or as <![CDATA[<]]> these
> are equivalent input and both reported by the parser as a single <
> character, so XSLT can not distinguish these.
> 
> Why do you need it to be something that looks like a comment but inside
> a Cdata section rather than a real comment? If your input file had a
> real comment you wouldn't have the problem, you could just copy the
> comment node. 
> 
> If you can't change the input, then if this text is inside an element
> rather thna at the top of the file you can specify that element as a
> cdata-section-elements attribute to xsl:output, then it will linearise
> the content of that element using CDATA rather than character entities.
> 
> Note however that either format is equivalent to teh next xml parser in
> the chain though so this should be a cosmetic change.
> 
> 

>       <!-- Evil work-around for Xalan warning message about not being able to
>            copy the jsp:root version attribute which is mandatory for JSP -->
> 
> You'd be getting that because you are trying to add attributes (by
> applying templates to @*) after you have added your jsp:directive and
> jsp:scriptlet elements and you have to add attributes first.
> 
> remove the |@* from your apply-templates and instead have 
> <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/> immeditately after the xsl:copy.
> 
> David
> 
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