Re: [xsl] identity transform - include CDATA's, etc

["Abie Hamaoui" <ahama5@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is to continue on david carlisle's thread.  I hope it goes to the right 
place.  if not, I hope someone can tell me how to do it right next time.


> CDATA sections are not elements they are just syntactic sugar so you can
> enter < and & as < and & rather than &lt; and &amp;,
> In the Xpath model text may or may not be output using CDATA at the will
> of the system, just as it may use " or ' to surround attribute values,
> the original markup is not recorded so a stylesheet has no way to
> recreate it.

> Why do you mind?

the reason I wanted the <![CDATA[]]> to come out in the output is that 
output of the identity transform is supposed to undergo another xslt 
transform.  it is therefore necessary that the CDATA section beginning and 
end markers get represented as is, since these sections contain '<' 
characters.

In case you'll ask why I'm using the identity transform altogether in this 
case, I hope it will suffice to say that there are logistical reasons 
relating to the development group in which I work.  but I think it would be 
easy to see how this issue would come up if a person wanted to use a variant 
of the identity transform and still be able to do another transform 
afterwards - in fact, it would probably come up any time that a document is 
meant to be processed in 2 successive transformations.  one would want the 
CDATA section markers to remain intact during the first transformation so 
that the document will come out right for the second.

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