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Peter Carlson wrote: > I am trying to transform XML to XML with included CDATA and keep that CDATA > node enclosed with a CDATA tag. This is a FAQ. First a bit of scolding. The role of an XML parser is to read the bits & bytes of an encoded XML document and then consistently report to the application the logical contents of the document. The logical contents are the canonicalized character data, arranged into a hierarchy of named elements and attributes, mostly. A CDATA section is an XML document's way of saying to an XML parser "this text might look like markup, but it's really just a string of character data. Report it to the application as you would any other character data." It simply gives the XML document author a way to avoid having to escape all the "&" and "<" characters in that span of text. A CDATA section does *not* cause the text to be flagged in any special way when it is reported to the application (the XSLT processor). The character data in a CDATA section is reported to the application exactly the same way a span of escaped character data would be reported.[*] The application has no idea whether this character data came from a CDATA section or a separate entity; it shouldn't need to. See also http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/cdata.html Now that that's out of the way, to answer your question, add a cdata-section-elements attribute to your xsl:output element, like this: <xsl:output method="xml" cdata-section-elements="newTXT"/> - Mike ____________________________________________________________________________ mike j. brown | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ denver/boulder, colorado, usa | personal: http://hyperreal.org/~mike/ [*] However, a parser might report CDATA sections as separate spans of text from any adjacent spans of escaped text / other CDATA sections. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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