I'm using XSL to transform two XML documents into one tailor formatted XML document. Because some of the elements will need to contain HTML, I need to specify them as CDATA sections. Is there an easy way to do this with XSL?

At the moment I'm having to use the following code (although it works fine, it seems a little over the top):

<xsl:element name="value">
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="concat('&lt;','![CDATA[')" />
<xsl:value-of select="text()" />
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="concat(']]', '&gt;')" />
</xsl:element>

Are there any alternative methods?

You need an output element with the names of the elements that contain cdata as follows: If you have more than one element separate the names with spaces.

In my opinion this method of storing html within xml rarely works, it always limits what you can do later but I realise that there are no perfect solutions.


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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)