[thelist] XSLT: escaping CDATA

Sam Foster sam at sam-i-am.com
Wed Apr 27 09:18:14 CDT 2005


> The problem is, I've got a CDATA section in the XSLT script, but the 
> XSLT processor consumes it (good thing, since the CSS it wraps doesn't 
> look anything like XML) so that I'm left with
>
>     <style type="text/css">
>       /**/
>
> and
>
>       /* */
>     </style>
>
> Is there any way to escape the CDATA?  CDATA sections can't be nested 
> unless I'm totally misreading things.

Did you get any ideas on this? I'm facing the same problem, trying to 
round trip some xhtml through an xslt transformation. I can do it if I 
pre/post process in perl, but the whole point is that this shouldn't be 
necessary and I should be able to accomplish it all in xslt.

thanks
Sam



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