[xslt] Text inside CDATA being converted to character entities by xsltproc

[Paul Giannaros <ceruleanblaze gmail com>]

Hi,
Is xsltproc supposed to convert text inside a CDATA section into
character entites?
For example,
<![CDATA[<pitch base="40%">]]>
Outputs
&lt;pitch base="40%"&gt;

Is this meant to be happening? If so, does xsltproc provide an option
for not processing the text inside a CDATA section?

Thanks,
Paul