Dave Brosius wrote:
I thinking that i'm confused, but i'm having trouble generating a CDATA
section from an xsl transform
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[</xsl:text>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes'><xsl:value-of
select="($myvar)"/></xsl:text>
</xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]></xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
etc
this majorly screws up, showing "disable-output-escaping" in the output.
When the XML parser processes this stylesheet, it reports content for
everything that's inside of the CDATA section, why are you surprised?
Remember, a CDATA section tells the parser to treat anything that looks
like markup within the section as just character data.
or do i not have to specify the <![CDATA[]]> characters, and they will
be generated if need be?
CDATA sections are _never_ necessary -- they're just a way to make a
document look more human-readable.
As much as I hate perpetuating disable-output-escaping hacks, perhaps
you meant this:
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="($myvar)"/>
</xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]></xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
If that doesn't produce what you're looking for, perhaps you can post a
complete, minimal sample. It's often hard to figure out your
intentions, and what's the real problem from snippets of stylesheets.
You should also take a look at the cdata-section-elements attribute of
the xsl:output instruction. If that will work for your case, you should
use it instead of disable-output-escaping.
Dave
