A CDATA section is a kludge for the manual xml writer to allow for handling a
bunch of problematic characters. In memory, there is no difference between a
CDATA section and a text block, and therefore when parsing, parsers just return
a string version.
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From: "AW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:32pm
To: xalan-j-users@xml.apache.org
Subject: Losing CDATA when parsing a String to XML
I'm using Xalan 2.7.1. I've written the following Java extension to transform
a string into XML. My problem is the variable in my XSLT (xmlNode) which
received the XML loses the CDATA tag. I'm not sure why Cdata section gets
removed.
public Node ToXml(String xmlString)
{
DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
Document document = null;
try
{
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
document = builder.parse(new InputSource(new
StringReader(xmlString)));
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}
if (document != null)
return document.getDocumentElement();
else
return null;
}
XSLT:
<xsl:variable name="xmlConverter" select="conv:new()" />
<xsl:variable name="xmlNode"
select="conv:ToXml($xmlConverter,./docXSLT/text())"/>
<XSLTdoc>
<xsl:copy-of select="$xmlNode"/>
</XSLTdoc>
Input:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>My CD Collection</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th align="left">Title</th>
<th align="left">Artist</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="artist"/></td>
<![CDATA[" and ends with "]]>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>My CD Collection</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th align="left">Title</th>
<th align="left">Artist</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="artist"/>
</td>
" and ends with " (The Cdata section is no longer there)
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Could you please help me with this ?
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