I've an application wherein I allow the users to upload stylesheets. I
receive the XSL as a string and hence convert to Xml using the Java
extension I mentioned. I won't have any prior knowledge of the elements
that will contain CDATA sections.
Dave Brosius-2 wrote:
>
> Not sure i follow what you are doing, but I think you can use
> OutputKeys.CDATA_SECTION_ELEMENTS to specify for what elements, child text
> nodes should be output as cdata sections when you transform a document
> back out. This probably doesn't have the granularity that you want,
> however, and i can't say I ever tried using it.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "AW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:47pm
> To: xalan-j-users@xml.apache.org
> Subject: RE: Losing CDATA when parsing a String to XML
>
>
> Could you please tell me how to overcome this problem ? I want to retain
> the
> CDATA tag.
>
> Dave Brosius-2 wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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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