Re: [xsl] Copy CDATA nodes from XML to XML format w/ XALAN

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

Peter Carlson wrote:
> I am trying to transform XML to XML with included CDATA and keep that CDATA
> node enclosed with a CDATA tag.

This is a FAQ. 

First a bit of scolding.

The role of an XML parser is to read the bits & bytes of an encoded XML
document and then consistently report to the application the logical contents
of the document. The logical contents are the canonicalized character data,
arranged into a hierarchy of named elements and attributes, mostly.

A CDATA section is an XML document's way of saying to an XML parser "this text
might look like markup, but it's really just a string of character data.
Report it to the application as you would any other character data." It simply
gives the XML document author a way to avoid having to escape all the "&" and
"<" characters in that span of text.

A CDATA section does *not* cause the text to be flagged in any special way
when it is reported to the application (the XSLT processor). The character
data in a CDATA section is reported to the application exactly the same way a
span of escaped character data would be reported.[*] The application has no
idea whether this character data came from a CDATA section or a separate
entity; it shouldn't need to.

See also http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/cdata.html

Now that that's out of the way, to answer your question, add a 
cdata-section-elements attribute to your xsl:output element, like this:

  <xsl:output method="xml" cdata-section-elements="newTXT"/>

   - Mike
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 [*] However, a parser might report CDATA sections as separate spans of text 
     from any adjacent spans of escaped text / other CDATA sections.

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