RE: XSL & CDATA Processing

Weird. How are you running this transformation (what XSLT processor, what
XML parser, and how are you invoking it?)

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rohit Mathur [mailto:geek_on_line@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 29 June 2004 03:21
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  XSL & CDATA Processing
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to perform an XSL transform for an XML
> Document to remove duplicate Nodes. The XML file is as
> below
> 
> <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>
> 
> 
> The XSL stylesheet I am using to do this is as below.
> 
> <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>
> 
> 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
> 
> <Test>
>   <Text LineCount="29" Object="RECORD" Status="?"
> Version="000">
>    
> &lt;![CDATA[<Text.Description><![CDATA[]]]]><![CDATA[>]]><![CD
> ATA[Table
> File]]></Text.Description>
>    
> &lt;![CDATA[<Text.LongDescription><![CDATA[]]]]><![CDATA[>]]><
> ![CDATA[Table
> File]]></Text.LongDescription>
>   </Text>
> </Test>  
> 
> Can anyone help me?
> 
> Cheers
> Rohit.
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