RE: copying CData sections from the source to destination documen ts

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

> Is it possible to copy an element and its contents from a 
> source document to a
> destination document exactly as it is contained in the source?

You can easily copy it to an output file that is equivalent, but not to one
that is lexically identical. The process of parsing the source XML to
produce the XSLT tree loses lexical details such as entity boundaries, CDATA
sections, order of attributes, and whitespace within tags. See XSLT Prog Ref
page 63.

Does it matter whether the output uses character references or CDATA? They
are just different ways of expressing the same information.

Mike Kay
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