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Thanks Mike, The reason it is being suggested to use a CDATA section is that the element is going to contain HTML markup, and thus, a ton of stuff like this >, <, &, and other characters that need to be escaped. However, I see what you are saying about the receiver treating it differently and luckily, although I don't have control over the receiver, I DO have control over making sure that all content put into that containing element is well-formed, so I will do that. Thanks for the help. --Nathan Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:54:37 +0100 From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: Re: CDATA output > > but it did not work, rightfully so. So, I cannot use > cdata-section-elements. Right now, I am simply doing > this: > > <property name="Body"><![CDATA[ > <!-- main content --> > <xsl:apply-templates /> > ]]></property> > > but that seems 'unclean' to me... > Not only is it unclean, it's not going to work, unless you use disable-output-escaping. Why does the serialized output need to be in a CDATA section? Is it really destined for an application that treats <a><![CDATA[xyz&]]></a> differently from <a>xyz&</a> ? If so, you should consider redesigning that application. The XSLT/XPath data model regards the two constructs above as different representations of the same information, and I think any sane XML application should do likewise. Your only alternative is to do the serialization yourself. Rather than doing this in the logic of your stylesheet (using disable-output-escaping), I would suggest doing it as a back-end post-processing application - typically written as a SAX ContentHandler. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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