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

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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.

Frankly, since XSLT is designed for processing XML, if you need to deal with
broken XML then I think it's often better to fix it using a tool that's
designed to handle arbitrary text, such as Perl.

However, it does depend how badly broken it is. In this particular case you
could repair it using

saxon:parse("<repair>" + description + "</repair>")

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/