Re: Processing XML with multiple nested CDATA sections

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Subject: Re: Processing XML with multiple nested CDATA sections
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:04:56 +0000

On 28/02/2013 23:47, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

  Some of
these CDATA sections have CDATA sections in them.

You can't nest CDATA sections.

<![CDATA[a <![CDATA[b ]]> c ]]>

is a fatal syntax error as the CDATA section ends at the first ]]> so the second ]]> is a syntax error. The second <![CDATA[ doesn't start a CDATA section at all as it is equivalent to <![CDATA[.

In your example the inner "]]>" is changed to ]] > to avoid this.

The input is a mess and this isn't guaranteed to work but on the posted example

<xsl:template match="hibernate-generic"> <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="replace(object/property[@name='body'],'(<!\[CDATA\[)|(\]\] *>)','')"/> </xsl:template>

produces


 <p>Creating Inted.</p><p>You can also ptions.</p>
<h1>Generating</h1><p><ac:link><ri:page ri:content-title="Types of
Widgets" /><ac:plain-text-link-body>Infographic widgets
</ac:plain-text-link-body></ac:link> are ways.</p>

David

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