Subject: Re: [xsl] cdata output and different xslt processors From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:40:03 GMT |
> but it does not leave it "as-is", it escapes the "<" and ">". No!!! Saxon didn't escape them, you did, by placing them in CDATA. That's what CDATA does, it's the only thing it does. If you doon't want the < to be escaped don't escape it by placing it in CDATA. If you go, in an XML file <![CDATA[ aaa < bbb < ccc ]]> then any XML application sees exactly the same as if you'd have entered aaa < bbb < ccc or aaa < bbb < ccc CDATA is just an alternative quoting syntax, useful if you have lots of < and & that need quoting. So you passed in a quoted <, ie a < as character data, and a quoted < comes out. (The system might output it as < or < or <![CDATA[<]]> but as these are all equivalent it doesn't matter which. Just as you may have surrounded attribute values with "" and they come out surrounded with '', so long as the XSLT system produces something that will parse the same way, it doesn't matter. David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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