RE: [xsl] Troubles with libxslt in PHP again: CDATA in <script>

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I seem to recall responding to your previous post pointing out that you were
writing a DOM as your output and that you were therefore not invoking the
XSLT serializer. That would seem to account for all your troubles.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martynas Jusevicius [mailto:martynas.jusevicius@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 October 2007 13:01
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Troubles with libxslt in PHP again: CDATA in <script>
> 
> Hi xsl-list,
> 
> I'm working with PHP 5.2, and its XSL extension based on 
> libxslt is giving me headache again. It used to add 
> Content-Type <meta> in my XHTML output where it was not 
> supposed to, and now in a similar manner it is implicitly 
> adding CDATA sections inside my <script> elements.
> 
> Most of the browsers do not understand CDATA in <script>, so 
> that gives JavaScript syntax error. Putting // comments to 
> prevent that is also not possible, since libxslt always puts 
> CDATA before them.
> Putting //<xsl:comment> to wrap my own CDATA used to do the 
> trick, but it does not work anymore with PHP 5.2.5 - libxslt 
> wraps the leading // in CDATA as well.
> 
> I think it is the same issue as in "Preventing CDATA output in XHTML":
> http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200707/msg00060.html
> 
> I read that thread, but couldn't find any real solution that 
> would fit me. Upgrading libxslt is not an option, since it is 
> built-in into PHP.
> Can you think of any solutions or workarounds?
> 
> I'm using "xml" output method and XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype. I 
> also have to stick to "text/html" content type since Google 
> Maps API (for which I'm producing JavaScript) does not work 
> properly with "application/xhtml+xml".
> 
> 
> Martynas Jusevicius
> www.xml.lt