Re: [xsl] Handling elements which is inside CDATA in input XML

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Ramkumar.V wrote:
> > Are you limited to XSLT 1.0 or can you use XSLT 2.0? Which XSLT 
> > processor do you use?
> > And what format exactly is there inside the CDATA section, is that 
> > XML, HTML, or what exactly? Is it ensured that '<' and '>' do only 
> > occur to delimit tags you want to remove?
> No, I can use xslt 2.0. I am using saxon9 for xml to html tranformation. 
> CDATA contains xml elements, i need to remove only span element.

Saxon 9.1 with all versions and 9.2 and 9.3 with the commercial versions 
supports 
http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/extensions/functions/parse.xml so 
you could take that contents of the question element, parse it and run 
it through templates stripping span elements e.g.
  <xsl:template match="question">
    <p>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="saxon:parse(.)/node()" mode="strip"/>
    </p>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="*" mode="strip">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="span" mode="strip">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

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