RE: [xml-dev] Problems with CDATA

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

If the next step in your pipeline is an XSLT transformation, then it doesn't make the slightest difference whether the text nodes are represented as CDATA sections or not.

 

Michael Kay

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From: Ciaran Bruen [mailto:cbruen1@yahoo.com]
Sent: 10 March 2006 09:36
To: Michael Kay; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] Problems with CDATA

Hi Michael - thanks for the reply. The xsl processing that I am performing is an intermediate step that passes on the resulting xml to another xsl stylesheet that performs the final step, so I need to keep the CDATA sections.

 

To process the XML I'm using Javax/TraX inside a java bean - these are the imported clases:

 

// Imported TraX classes

import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;

import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;

import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;

import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;

 

Any more suggestions or ideas are greatly appreciated - thanks a lot.

 

Ciaran.

 

Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:

 > The first problem was that it was not keeping any of the CDATA sections around any elements - it was simply removing them and just copying the text inside the sections.  

 

That's correct behaviour. CDATA is considered to be just an input convenience, to save you using lots of entity and character references for special characters. If there aren't any special characters, then the CDATA brackets are just noise.

 

 I then added cdata-section-elements="UNIQUEJVID" and cdata-section-elements="TITLE" (in a new line) to the xsl:output section of the xsl. This returned the CDATA section around these element but incorrectly - as in below:  

 

This looks like a quirk of the XSLT processor you are using, you should report it on the support channel for that processor (or at the very least, tell us which processor you are using.)

 

Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/