RE: CDATA - Can I have XML ?

>   Is it possible possible to parse the XML data which is 
> under CDATA tag in a XSL?

Yes, you can extract it as a string and pass it to an XML parser like
any other string. But you can't do this within standard XSLT 1.0 (Saxon
has an extension function saxon:parse to do this).

The usual advice is that when you nest one XML document inside another,
you should nest it directly, without using CDATA. XML is specifically
designed to allow such nesting. CDATA is saying "the angle brackets in
here may look like markup, but they aren't". So if they are markup, why
put them in CDATA?

But of course, dealing with badly-designed XML is what we all have to do
every day.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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