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

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Griffin [mailto:listfeed@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 November 2006 22:18
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Processing empty nodes in XSLT

I need to enclose the data in my XML in CDATA. Doing this for
nodes with data was simple.

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
   <xsl:output cdata-section-elements="<list of node names>"/>
   <xsl:template match="*">
     <xsl:copy-of select="*"/>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

That was simple. Except that doesn't work for empty nodes.
For empty nodes I need <name><![CDATA[]]></name>. I've tried
various ways of doing this but I don't seem to understand how
to process each node of the input. I would like the solution
to generically add "<![CDATA[]]  >" to all empty nodes.

Thanks,
Chris Griffin