Hi All,

I have a xml file as an input to a XSLT file which will generate transformed xml file.but i need to create all transformed Xml in to a CDATA section.

Eg:
input :
<numbers>
<x>2</x>
<y>3</y>
</numbers>

xslt:

<xsl:template match="/numbers">
<xsl:element name="Nums">
<xsl:element name="Num1"><xsl:value-of select="//y" /> </xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="Num2"><xsl:value-of select="//x" /> </xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>


output Required :
<ACORD>
<![CDATA[

<Nums>
<Num1>3</Num1>
<Num2>2</Num2>
</Nums>

]/>
</ACORD>


Any one could you please help me on this?

Thanks
Misanaka

CDATA means character data. When you write

<![CDATA[ <x>3</x> ]]>

you are telling the system "x might look like an element, but it isn't one, it is ordinary character data". This means that to construct such output, you shouldn't create x as an element, you should construct it as text.

The first thing I would say is, are you really obliged to generate this output - because it is a bad design and a bad misuse of XML.

However, there are tricks you can use if you really have to do it, provided that the XML is being serialized using an XSLT serializer (this means it won't work in Firefox, for example). Basically, generate the start and end CDATA markers using d-o-e

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;!CDATA[[</xsl:text>

It's a horrible kludge and it would be much better to redesign the output XML format, but it's there to use if you're desperate.

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

Thanks Mr.Michale Kay

I read couple of posts you saying this is bad design.But i dont have a choice. i have to send this to third party accepts the string this way.