RE: treating a CDATA node as Elements nodes

whooops thats what i meant, a CDATA is a simple text
node, just trying to get more info out of it if
possible... 

David was mentioning that "some xslt systems have
extension functions to allow you to
execute a [xml] parser" with an extension function.
Does Saxon have an extension to do this and/or how
would one go about doing this?

I am not sure if I will ever use it, just curious when
I was looking at bringing rss feeds into flash.


--- Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > CDATA sections are viewed as a single node that
> can't
> > be split up even more in template rules right?
> 
> Wrong. CDATA sections don't result in nodes in the
> tree. CDATA is simply a
> way of escaping special characters, so that & means
> ampersand rather than
> introducing an entity reference, and < means
> less-than rather than
> introducing a start tag. The content of the CDATA
> section is concatenated
> with adjacent text to produce a normal text node in
> the tree. CDATA section
> boundaries are not considered to carry any
> information.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 
> 


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