Re: [xsl] CDATA Handling

[Evan Lenz <evan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's much better. Wish I'd thought of it.

"A bit nervous" and "not too bad" feels much better than "yuck, this is 
a horrible hack". So, short of changing the DTD...what Michael said. :-)

JSR, it would look something like this (using 
<xsl:processing-instruction/> to generate the PIs):

<x>See following image: <?start-image?>abcde<?end-image?></x>

Evan

Michael Kay wrote:
> > I'll probably regret this suggestion. No one has mentioned an 
> > alternative possibility (still bad architecturally, just not 
> > quite as bad as using CDATA delimiters): use non-XML "markup" 
> > (text) to delimit the images.
> >
> > <x>See following image: TARTIMAGE##abcde##ENDIMAGE##</x>
> >
> >     
>
> Why use non-XML markup? Processing instructions do the same job better.
>
> I always feel a bit nervous about using processing instructions when I want
> to add some markup without changing the DTD. But it's a practical technique
> that works (much better than CDATA sections). I don't feel too bad about it
> if the PI really is being used as an "instruction" (to a stylesheet) to do
> some "processing". And there are cases where (for better or for worse)
> getting the DTD changed really isn't an option.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/