Re: [xsl] CDATA Handling

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At 08:16 AM 1/6/2009, David wrote:
> <xsl:if test="parent::BuiltStructure">
>         <xsl:text><![CDATA[
>                 <tr>
>                 <td>Category</td><td><strong>]]>
>                         Built Structure<br>]]></xsl:text>
>        <xsl:apply-templates select="../@type"/>
>         <xsl:text><![CDATA[<br>
>         </strong></td>
>                 </tr>]]></xsl:text>
> </xsl:if>

When faced with requirements to emit pseudo-markup of this sort, I 
prefer to think of it as a kind of meta-serialization, which can be 
encapsulated in templates for convenience.

Ulimately you're talking about tag-writing, as in Evan's 
http://xmlportfolio.com/xml-to-string/ (techniques which can be 
adapted fairly readily to make pseudo-HTML).

David's point that the cosmetic enhancement of getting CDATA into the 
output can (only) be handled on xsl:output (with a serializer that 
supports it) is the essential one.

Cheers,
Wendell



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