[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: (newby) extraction of CDATA nodes to different XML
the best advice on using CDATA sections with XSLT is not to use them:-) Thanks again for the explanation of the CDATA section... as far as I can understand the use of those sections allow me to freely insert all the raw data I need in the resulting XML (resulting from the XSL transformation i mean...) CDATA means Character data and specifically it means "THIS IS NOT XML MARKUP" If you have <x><p>...<br/>...</p><x> in a source and you want that HTML copied to the result you just want <xsl:copy-of select="x/p"/> and the p element and all its descendants will appear in the source. If on the other hand you have <x><![CDATA[<p>...<br/>...</p>]]><x> Then you have gone to the trouble to carefully flag that the stuff inside the x element that looks like XML is just character data and not XML markup at all. If you then change your mind and want it to appear in the result tree as XML (which is usually what people want) then life is harder, there are various possibilities (all FAQ's) but the usual advice is "don't start from here"... David ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________
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