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

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 11:17:43PM +0100, Paul Giannaros wrote:
> 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?

  XSLT use the XPAth data model as the conceptual representation of a 
document. In the XPath data model there is no representation for CData
sections. It will be processed once parsed like any other text node.
   http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-Text-Nodes
In general nothing replace reading the specs to understand the behaviour
of the tools ;-)
As for an extension of libxslt it not in order, but you may want to read
   http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-XML-Output-Method
especially the paragraph on "cdata-section-elements",

Daniel

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