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Well then, I guess in this case it's ok to cheat: <data has_cdata="True"> -or- <cdata><![CDATA[ .. ]]</cdata> The apply-templates and match is cleaner in the first example, I'll go with that! Karl.. On Dec 8, 2007 9:34 PM, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 2007-12-08 20:43 -0700, Karl Stubsjoen wrote: > >Can you write a match for an element containing CDATA? > > No ... CDATA boundaries are not preserved in the XPath data > model. CDATA sections are just syntactic sugar and as such are not > distinguished in the XML Information Set (see Appendix D): > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204 > > >The thought > >is: raw web content in a CDATA element, and some web content will be > >well formed. So I might have something like: > > > ><root> > > <data> > > <div>foo bar<br/>foo bar</div><!-- well formed --> > > </data> > > <data><![DATA[ > > <p>not so foo<br>barf<!-- not well formed --> > > ]> > > </data> > ></root> > > > >In one case, I'd simply xsl:value-of the data element, and in the > >other case, I'd write an identity transformation for it. > > Just by using the identity transform you will get the identical > *information* in the result tree as in the source, you just won't get > the identical syntax for that information. > > A downstream application based on the XML information set will not > see a difference if the characters of your CDATA section are instead > individually escaped. > > I hope this helps. > > . . . . . . . . . . . Ken > > -- > Comprehensive in-depth XSLT2/XSL-FO1.1 classes: Austin TX,Jan-2008 > World-wide corporate, govt. & user group XML, XSL and UBL training > RSS feeds: publicly-available developer resources and training > G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ > Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) > Male Cancer Awareness Nov'07 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc > Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal
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