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Rupesh Dasari
Rupesh Dasari

Reputation: 57

Using XSLT how do we render CDATA tag?

Using XSLT how do we render CDATA tag?

In xslt I dont want to create CDATA tag using text or declaring in xml output tag using cdata-section-elements, it should read it dynamically from input, if element value is around CDATA than then xslt should render the same, as shown below

Input:

<A><![CDATA[Hello World]]></A>

XSLT Output :

<A><![CDATA[Hello World]]></A>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 247

Answers (1)

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167716

The data model XSLT/XPath/XQuery operate on does not know any CDATA sections so you can't simply preserve them as the tree you operate on simply contains a text node in both cases (i.e. for <foo>a &amp; b</foo> and <foo><![CDATA[a & b]]></foo> the tree is a foo element containing a single text child node with the string value a & b).

So there is no way in pure XSLT to achieve what you want, unless you pre-process the input to convert CDATA sections into some structure like elements the XSLT data model allows you to detect and distinguish. Andrew Welch has http://andrewjwelch.com/lexev/ to do that in a Java environment.

Thus if you use an XSLT 2.0 processor like Saxon 9 with Java you could use that approach.

Upvotes: 4

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