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(_at_)cranesoftwrights(_dot_)com> 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
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