RE: Handling CDATA element

I'm afraid none of the tools handle this well. The sole purpose of CDATA is
to tell the system that the angle brackets around <br> aren't to be treated
as markup, which means that when you want to treat them as markup, you've
got a problem. disable-output-escaping is one way around that problem, but
it's messy.

It's not clear what you actually want to produce as your output or exactly
where your difficulty lies.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thorsten Scherler [mailto:thorsten@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 February 2006 16:22
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Handling CDATA element
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a question regarding the CDATA element.
> 
> My problem is the following. I have a rss feed like:
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=
> rss&pid=12310000&fixfor=12310040&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field
> =priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=25&reset=true&decorator=none
> that returns something like:
> 
> <description><![CDATA[html-to-document.xsl no longer converts 
> content to
> an XDoc. Instead it renders converts documents to XDoc, instead it
> allows H1, H2 etc. elements to pass through.
> <br>
> 
> <br>
> ]]></description>
> 
> Now in my xsl I have something like the following to preserve 
> the markup
> of the cdata (it can contain any html markup).
> ...
> <xsl:value-of select="description" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
> ...
> 
> If you remove @disable-output-escaping then it will transformed to
> &lt;br&gt;
> 
> That looses the markup information but result in well-formed markup. I
> prefer well-formed over well-presented, but best would be both. ;-)
> 
> I am unsure how to fix that, has somebody an idea?
> 
> TIA for any informations
> 
> salu2
> -- 
> thorsten
> 
> "Together we stand, divided we fall!" 
> Hey you (Pink Floyd)