Re: [xsl] Serializing elements in CDATA, based on an attribute value

Subject: Re: [xsl] Serializing elements in CDATA, based on an attribute value
From: "cmarchand@xxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:11:23 -0000
Ok, thanks a lot. I'm gonna look at both solutions.
Best regards,
Christophe


Le 2017-04-12 18:14, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx a C)critB :
The only way of getting CDATA sections output by the serializer using
standard XSLT capabilities, or using standard Saxon capabilities, is
the cdata-section-elements property, and that is driven entirely by
element name. For finer-grained control you'll have to do something
else.

One approach would be output the relevant elements with a different
name, e.g. METADATA, and specify cdata-section-elements="METADATA".
You can then replace < METADATA and </METADATA by <metadata and
</metadata by post-processing the serialized output at the text level.

If you're feeling more adventurous it's not difficult to inject a
custom processing step into the Saxon serialization pipeline by
nominating your own subclass of Saxon's SerializerFactory.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 12 Apr 2017, at 14:23, cmarchand@xxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,
In a document, I write many tags of metadata. Part of them, based on @code value (debug & info), MUST be serialized with a CDATA content.


With this input :
<metadata code="dummy">Standard serialization</metadata>
<metadata code="debug">C-Data serialization</metadata>
<metadata code="foe">Standard serialization</metadata>
<metadata code="info">C-Data serialization</metadata>

I do expect this :
<metadata code="dummy">Standard serialization</metadata>
<metadata code="debug"><![CDATA[C-Data serialization]]></metadata>
<metadata code="foe">Standard serialization</metadata>
<metadata code="info"><![CDATA[C-Data serialization]]></metadata>

What must I define as serialization parameters to get this ? I use Saxon 9.7EE, so I can use Saxon extensions.

Thanks in advance,
Christophe

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