Re: [xslt] handling of < in CDATA sections

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gnome vinc17 org>]

On 2005-02-22 10:39:39 +0100, Roel Vanhout wrote:
> 1.) Is this behaviour ok? Should a < in a CDATA section be escaped to &lt;?

Writing < in a CDATA section is not different from writing &lt; outside.
In both cases, you have a character < that belongs to a text node. I've
not seen the stylesheet, but IMHO, libxslt is doing the right thing, by
escaping < when generating a text node.

> 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 cleanest way in your case is to use xsl:processing-instruction to
create a PI.

> 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.

It should be closed as invalid.

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