Re: [xsl] accessing CDATA from XSL

[Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>]

Sai, Mukundan (IE10) wrote:
> I have an xml file which has got a CDATA in it for eg: 
> <parent> 
> <child>.... </child> 
> < ! [ CDATA[ hi how r u .....]]> 
> </parent>
> 
> so from my xsl i want to access the content of the CDATA 
> ie .. i how do i do that ie 
> <xsl:template match="Parent"> 
> <xsl:value-of select="."/> 
> i want the CDATA value here 
> so how do i do that 
> mukund

<xsl:value-of select="child/following-sibling::text()"/>

Note that the whitespace is character data too, and the fact that some
of the character data is in is a CDATA section goes away when the
XML is parsed. The XPath tree looks like:

element 'parent'
  |
  |___text '\n'
  |
  |___element 'child'
  |      |
  |      |___text '.... '
  |
  |___text '\n hi how r u .....\n'


If you were to do xsl:value-of select="text()" you'd only get the
first text node child of 'parent', so that's why I suggest you look
for the first text node that's a following sibling of 'child'.

Mike

-- 
  Mike J. Brown   |  http://skew.org/~mike/resume/
  Denver, CO, USA |  http://skew.org/xml/

 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list