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Old August 3rd, 2006, 10:36 AM
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Can someone tell me how to navigate and extract the XML data in CDATA section? The task that I am trying to achieve here is that I need to be able to navigate the element and extract the necessary elements in the CDATA section and convert them to another XML file. I tried to take out the file in CDATA, but it's all text based that I could not be able to navigate through it. Can someone give me some suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

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Old August 3rd, 2006, 11:02 AM
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There is no XML data in a CDATA section. CDATA means "character data" - it's only purpose is to tell the parser that anything inside it, even if it looks like XML, isn't actually XML but plain text.

If someone makes the design mistake of putting XML in a CDATA section (and it's often done), then the only thing you can do is extract the character data and supply it as input to an XML parser, which will interpret it as XML.

In Saxon the saxon:parse() extension function can be used to do this.

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Thanks for the suggesiton. Will give it try.






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