Re: [xsl] Problem with < and > in front and after CDATA section

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

jo lemen wrote:
> I'm having trouble parsing an RSS feed (version 2.0), over which I have no control, server-side using using classic ASP and XSL (version 1)
> Mu guess is that the problem lies in the following line of the RSS feed:
> <description>&lt;![CDATA[ text ]]&gt;</description>
> The result is that none of the content in between the description tag shows up on screen. Below are the relevant pieces of code.
>
> Is there a way in XSL 1.0 to fix the &lt; and &gt; in front of and after the CDATA section? If it can only be done in XSLT 2.0, I would be glad to learn how. Thanks in advance.

Well assuming your stylesheet is only processing XML documents where the 
description element looks like below

> <description>&lt;![CDATA[description text]]&gt;</description>

then you could use
  <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(description, 
'[CDATA['), ']]')"/>



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