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Re: (newby) extraction of CDATA nodes to different XML files

2005-04-01 03:05:50
On Apr 1, 2005 11:18 AM, David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> 
wrote:

 The elements have the strange definition shown below:
 <![CDATA[   .....snip.....   ]]>

That isn't an element, it's a CDATA section and is invisible to an XSLT
processor. You just extract the data from the surrounding element in the
usual way.

Ok, so I cannot parse anything inside that section...

CDATA is just an authoring convenience, within the marked region < acts
like &lt; and & acts like &amp; so if you have a large chunk of XML that
you want to quote as data rather than as part of the XML tree, you can
do

<x><![[CDATA[<p>zzz <span>dddd &nbsp; ...</span></p>]]></x>

but XSLT will see the same input as if you had gone

<x>&lt;p>zzz &lt;span>dddd &amp;nbsp; ...&lt;/span>&lt;/p></x>

Well.... I got confused now.... Do you mean that I won't be able to
obtain formally correct XML files without an additional non-XSL
transformation (necessary to remove the <![CDATA[ token) of the
XSL-transformated file.

Am I right?

Livio

David
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