Re: [xsl] Preserve CDATA for all elements

["Jagdishwar (Jagsmiles)" <jagsmiles@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/14/06, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 2006-05-14 19:28 +0200, Jagdishwar (Jagsmiles) wrote:
> >Is there any way, where i can specify in xsl, to preserve all the
> >CDATA for all the elements of the source xml document.
>
> No, the spec is quite explicit:
>
> - Section 3.4 states elements= is a set of name tests
> - Section 16 states cdata-section-elements is a set of qualified names
>
> And note that using cdata-section-elements= one is not "preserving"
> the CDATA section, only emitting a CDATA section ... there is no
> awareness of any use of CDATA sections in the files that create the
> source trees.
This is an important statement. Thanks a lot: CDATA elements are
emitted for the elements specified in cdata-section-elements
attribute.
(till now, i was thinking that, it preserves the "CDATA" if source
element has CDATA. which was not correct)


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