Re: [xslt] handling of < in CDATA sections

[Roel Vanhout <roel riks nl>]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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.

Ok well this shows my lack of understanding then :)

> > 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.

Although it does seem like cheating, this could indeed work. According 
to http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_processing-instruction.asp (and 
various other pages I found on this element), if I'd write
<xsl:processing-instruction name="php">
  $var = 0;
</xsl:processing-instruction>
that should produce
<?php
  $var = 0;
?>

Unfortunately it seems that xsltproc makes that
<?php
  $var = 0;
>
(notice the missing ? in the close tag of the PI). I've also tried 
putting in an xsl:text node around the $var = 0; but that didn't help. 
Am I reading the examples wrong or maybe doing something else wrong?

> > 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.

Sorry what I meant was: 'see this bug for the original stylesheet'. It's 
not a bug report on libxslt, it's a bug report on gtkmm for which I'm 
trying to do this whole thing.

Thanks for your help.


cheers,

roel