RE: CDATA or escape in the result tree problems

If it's XHTML then it's in a namespace, which means it isn't called
"textarea" but "xhtml:textarea".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kjetil Kjernsmo [mailto:kjetil@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 30 October 2006 08:36
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  CDATA or escape in the result tree problems
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> I'm trying to integrate TinyMCE, a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor, 
> into my system. TinyMCE produces XHTML, and can be attached 
> to textareas.
> Textareas in HTML cannot contain other HTML elements, thus 
> the problem arises that the HTML needs to be escaped or put 
> into a CDATA section.
> 
> At first, I thought this was going to be a straightforward 
> application of cdata-section-elements="textarea", and that is 
> also what is indicated in the FAQ. It does not work as 
> expected, however.
> 
> I use Perl's XML::LibXSLT, which uses GNOME's libxslt.
> My test system is Ubuntu Dapper, with the versions 1.58-1 and 
> 1.1.15 respectively. My production system is Debian Sarge, 
> with somewhat older libraries. I haven't tested there yet.
> 
> It may influence the situation that I have a stylesheet with 
> the following output element:
> 
>   <xsl:output version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"
>     method="html" media-type="text/html"
>     doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
>     doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"
>     cdata-section-elements="textarea"
>     />
> 
> which imports a stylesheet match-control.xsl that contains
> 
>    <textarea name="{@name}" id="{@name}"
> 			rows="{@rows}" cols="{@cols}">
> 		<xsl:copy-of select="./ct:value/*/*"/>
>    </textarea>
> 
> This outputs HTML, not wrapped in a CDATA, nor escaped. If I 
> run the resulting code through the W3C HTML validator, it 
> complains that it is invalid. I'd like the resulting nodes of 
> <xsl:copy-of select="./ct:value/*/*"/> put into a CDATA 
> section, or perhaps escaped.
> 
> Any ideas why this is so? Is it because I import this 
> stylesheet? Is it a weakness with libxslt? Or have I 
> misunderstood cdata-section-elements?
> 
> Now, I assume that a CDATA section is The Right Way To Do It, 
> but I don't know if TinyMCE thinks likewise. I have seen it 
> simply escape < and > to &lt; and &gt;, and still submit it 
> back as proper HTML.
> So, I figured, maybe I should be more pragmatic about it (I'm 
> normally such a purist), and just escape them too...
> 
> The problem is that I allow users to insert pretty much any 
> HTML in there. My application does some validation and a bit 
> of cleanup, so it should be valid, but that makes is slightly 
> harder to write the template that it should match on if I 
> were to just escape the HTML. If the cdata thing above seems 
> hard to do, I would be happy for advices on how to do this as well.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kjetil
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