Re: [xsl] copying CDATA section from xml

["NILESH PATEL" <jayganesh786@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mike, and list,

This solves my problem.

Nileh Patel


> From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] copying CDATA section from xml
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 10:28:20 -0600 (MDT)
>
> NILESH PATEL wrote:
> > I have a small xml document which basically containes standard output by
> > running native command on java and it only containes simple text in 
> CDATA
> > section as shown below in XML. However I don't know how to write xsl to 
> grab
> > all the details of CDATA section and write out in text format. Please 
> help.
> > If any questions then please let me know. Looking forward to resolve 
> this.
>
> CDATA sections are a convenience for document authors only; their only 
> purpose
> is to make it so you don't have to escape "<" and "&" characters. They are 
> not
> a part of the XPath/XSLT data model. All character data, whether it is in a
> CDATA section or not, gets merged into text nodes in a node tree. For 
> example,
>
> <foo>1 <![CDATA[& 2 are <]]> 3</foo>
>
> becomes two nodes:
>
> element 'foo'
>   |
>   |___text '1 & 2 are < 3'
>
> So your question is simply, how do you copy the the text content of your
> 'stdout' element. Easy:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>   <xsl:output method="text" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
>
>   <xsl:template match="/">
>     <xsl:value-of select="root/stdout"/>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>    - Mike
> ____________________________________________________________________________
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