Re: XSL & CDATA Processing

I am trying to perform an XSL transform for an XML
Document to remove duplicate Nodes. The XML file is as
below
...
The XSL stylesheet I am using to do this is as below.
...
The output generated removes the duplicate node but
somehow doesn't process the CDATA sections properly.

<Test>
  <Text LineCount="29" Object="RECORD" Status="?"
Version="000">
    &lt;![CDATA[<Text.Description>]]&gt;Table
File</Text.Description>
    &lt;![CDATA[<Text.LongDescription>]]&gt;Table
File</Text.LongDescription>
  </Text>
</Test>

I have tried adding a "cdata-section-elements" section
to the xsl:ouput tag telling it to treat
Text.Description & Text.LongDescription as CDATA.
This creates the following output

T:\ftemp>type rohit.xml
<Test>
  <Text LineCount="29" Object="RECORD" Status="?"
Version="000">
    <Text.Description><![CDATA[Table
File]]></Text.Description>
    <Text.LongDescription><![CDATA[Table
File]]></Text.LongDescription>
  </Text>

  <Text LineCount="29" Object="RECORD" Status="?"
Version="000">
    <Text.Description><![CDATA[Table
File]]></Text.Description>
    <Text.LongDescription><![CDATA[Table
File]]></Text.LongDescription>
  </Text>
</Test>

T:\ftemp>type rohit.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0" >
  <xsl:output method="xml"
omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
   <xsl:template match="Text">
      <xsl:if test="not(@Object =
preceding::Text/@Object)">
        <xsl:copy>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
      </xsl:if>
   </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
      <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
      </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>saxon rohit.xml rohit.xsl
<Test>
  <Text LineCount="29" Object="RECORD" Status="?" Version="000">
    <Text.Description>Table
File</Text.Description>
    <Text.LongDescription>Table
File</Text.LongDescription>
  </Text>

</Test>
T:\ftemp>type rohit2.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0" >
  <xsl:output method="xml"
cdata-section-elements="Text.Description Text.LongDescription"
omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
   <xsl:template match="Text">
      <xsl:if test="not(@Object =
preceding::Text/@Object)">
        <xsl:copy>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
      </xsl:if>
   </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
      <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
      </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>saxon rohit.xml rohit2.xsl
<Test>
  <Text LineCount="29" Object="RECORD" Status="?" Version="000">
    <Text.Description><![CDATA[Table
File]]></Text.Description>
    <Text.LongDescription><![CDATA[Table
File]]></Text.LongDescription>
  </Text>

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