Hi All,

Greetings.

I would like to know some clarification on using cdata-section-elements.

Used XSL:

<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="iso-8859-1" indent="yes" cdata-section-elements="alt" />

XML Input:

<alt>$$\sqrt {b^2 - 4ac}$$ </alt>


Observed Output:
<equation format="display">
<alt type="Tex">
<![CDATA[û&dollar;ûû&dollar;û\sqrt {b^2 - 4acû&rcub;ûû&dollar;ûû&dollar;û ]]>
</alt>
</equation>

Requested Output:
<equation format="display">
<alt type="Tex">
<![CDATA[$$\sqrt {b^2 - 4ac}$$]]>
</alt>
</equation>

My document contains all sort of iso entity were a character-mapping is done to obtain
those entity as follows "<xsl:output-character character="$" string="&dollar;"/>"
during this process it also converts the "$" inside <alt> which was
declared as a CDATA element in XSLT as shown above.

My questions:
1. I want the CDATA elements as shown above
2. I want to convert all special characters to its entity values and not the entity inside CDATA element.

û - #369;
LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DOUBLE ACUTE
is token generated during conversion which is also look as ^@ for visibility only in episilon


Thanks & Regards
ROCXY

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Thanks,
Rocxy.

According to the XSLT 2.0 serialization spec, characters in elements listed in cdata-section-elements should not be subjected to character mapping. See

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-ser...ion/#serphases

However, this area of the spec is still undergoing some last minute refinement.

Which XSLT 2.0 processor/version are you using? It's probably best to raise this on the appropriate vendor list.

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