Thanks for the quick response Santiago, > Just to be clear, the cdata-section-elements only refers to output >elements of that name (so it isn't about preserving CDATAs from the >input document).
I'm not trying to preserver CDATA from the input document, only to enclose some elements in my output.xml in cdata section. > This is strange. Have you looked at what the JDOM library is doing >exactly when calling Xalan? Are you certain that Xalan is being used? I set this attribute in my Java code as follows: System.setProperty("javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory", "org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl"); The output of my environment check is the following: boolean environmentOK = (new EnvironmentCheck()).checkEnvironment (null); #---- BEGIN writeEnvironmentReport($Revision: 1.26 $): Useful stuff found: ---- version.DOM.draftlevel=2.0fd 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version.JAXP=1.1 or higher java.ext.dirs=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_08\lib\ext version.xerces2=Xerces-J 2.6.2 version.xerces1=not-present version.xalan2_2=Xalan Java 2.6.0 version.xalan1=not-present version.ant=not-present java.version=1.5.0_08 version.DOM=2.0 version.crimson=not-present sun.boot.class.path=C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_08\lib\rt.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_08\lib\i18n.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_08\lib\sunrsasign.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_08\lib\jsse.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_08\lib\jce.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_08\lib\charsets.jar;C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_08\classes #---- BEGIN Listing XML-related jars in: foundclasses.java.class.path ---- dom.jar-path=C:\src\HEAD\DAL\lib\jaxen-jdom.jar dom.jar-apparent.version=dom.jar present-unknown-version dom.jar-path=C:\src\HEAD\DAL\lib\jdom.jar dom.jar-apparent.version=dom.jar present-unknown-version xercesImpl.jar-apparent.version=xercesImpl.jar from Xerces-J-bin.2.6.2 xercesImpl.jar-path=C:\src\HEAD\DAL\lib\xercesImpl.jar xml-apis.jar-apparent.version=xml-apis.jar from tck-jaxp-1_2_0 branch of xml-commons, tag: xml-commons-external_1_2_01 xml-apis.jar-path=C:\src\HEAD\DAL\lib\xml-apis.jar dom.jar-path=C:\src\HEAD\DTAX\JavaCode\offline_src\lib\jaxen-jdom.jar dom.jar-apparent.version=dom.jar present-unknown-version dom.jar-path=C:\src\HEAD\DTAX\JavaCode\offline_src\lib\jdom.jar dom.jar-apparent.version=dom.jar present-unknown-version xalan.jar-path=C:\src\HEAD\DTAX\JavaCode\offline_src\lib\xalan.jar xercesImpl.jar-apparent.version=xercesImpl.jar from Xerces-J-bin.2.6.2 xercesImpl.jar-path=C:\src\HEAD\DTAX\JavaCode\offline_src\lib\xercesImpl.jar xml-apis.jar-apparent.version=xml-apis.jar from tck-jaxp-1_2_0 branch of xml-commons, tag: xml-commons-external_1_2_01 xml-apis.jar-path=C:\src\HEAD\DTAX\JavaCode\offline_src\lib\xml-apis.jar #----- END Listing XML-related jars in: foundclasses.java.class.path ----- version.SAX=2.0 version.xalan2x=not-present #----- END writeEnvironmentReport: Useful properties found: ----- # YAHOO! Your environment seems to be OK. According to this I assume that my application is using xalan, am I wrong? Thanks! Santiago Pericas-Geertsen wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2006, at 2:14 PM, arman_jan wrote: > >> >> I am using Jdom's XSLTransformer class to transform one xml file to >> another. >> The output file should have all character data enclosed in cdata >> section. I >> use <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" cdata-section- >> elements="value"/> > > Just to be clear, the cdata-section-elements only refers to output > elements of that name (so it isn't about preserving CDATAs from the > input document). > > > >> in my xsl stylesheet. When I do a regular command line transform >> using xalan >> 2.7.0 I get the desired output. >> >> java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN input.xml -XSL sheet.xsl - >> OUT out.xml >> >> However, when I perform a transformation inside Java code, my <value> >> element doesn't have the text enclosed in cdata-section. > > This is strange. Have you looked at what the JDOM library is doing > exactly when calling Xalan? Are you certain that Xalan is being used? > > -- Santiago > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/xsl-transform-with-cdata-section-elements-tf2755890.html#a7686364 Sent from the Xalan - J - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.