Hi there,
  I am trying to wrap all data that has special characters in it with <![CDATA[ ]]> section in an xsl. for example, <bookname><![CDATA[Rainbow & it's Story]]></bookname>...

The problem is that i am retriving the book name using
<xsl:value-of select="BookName"/>....so i wanted to know if the following syntax is correct...

<bookname><![CDATA[ ]]><xsl:value-of select="BOOKNAME"/><![CDATA[ ]]></bookname>

Any corrections or changes needed, please let me know....

thanks...
rahul

Your syntax is "correct" but it won't have any effect. CDATA sections don't have any representation in the tree data model (they aren't nodes), so the only way you can create them is at serialization time. Try <xsl:output cdata-section-elements="bookname"/>. It isn't possible to be any more selective than that.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference