[xslt] handling of < in CDATA sections

[Roel Vanhout <roel riks nl>]

Hello all,

I've written an xsl stylesheet to serve as customization stylesheet for 
a docbook document. The goal is to insert some php code into the 
generated (html) documentation. For that to happen I need my stylesheet 
to output php tags, like this:
<?php
into the generated html. It's the < that is causing me troubles. My 
first try was to put it in a CDATA section, like this:
<![CDATA[
  <?php
]]>
and that worked for me, but it turned out that someone else, with a 
newer version of xsltproc, got a different output than I did: he got
&lt;?php
(the < was escaped). So I upgraded my xsltproc to the latest version and 
then I got the same problem. Now, my questions are:

1.) Is this behaviour ok? Should a < in a CDATA section be escaped to &lt;?
2.) What other options do I have to reach my goal? I've tried <xsl:text> 
but that (as I expected) didn't help.

The bug report with the original stylesheet and the message that it 
didn't work can be found in the gnome bugzilla, see 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168030. Thanks for any help in 
this.


cheers,

roel