Removing namespaces without escaping CDATA???

ypomonh · April 6th, 2007, 03:30 AM

I' trying to remove namespaces from a document using the following piece of code that although works, has the side-effect of escaping CDATA sections (eg. "<![CDATA[blah blah]]>").

How can I prevent CDATA from being escaped..?

--- Begin xsl ---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:template match="*">

      <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">

        <xsl:for-each select="@*">

          <xsl:attribute name="{local-name()}">
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
          </xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:for-each>
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
      </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
--- End xsl ---

mhkay · April 6th, 2007, 05:51 AM

You need to show what your input looks like. If it were really a CDATA section like this:

<e:elem><![CDATA[text]]></e:elem>

then I would expect it to come out like this:

<elem>text</elem>

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

ypomonh · April 6th, 2007, 12:28 PM

My input is like this:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <jasperReport xmlns:sql="blahblah" name="dbreport">
      <queryString>
         <![CDATA[select name from patpat]]>
      </queryString>
      <field class="java.lang.String" name="name"/>
      ...
      <text><![CDATA[chr]]></text>
      ...

and the output I get from the above XSL code is:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <jasperReport name="dbreport">
      <queryString>
         &lt;![CDATA[select name from patpat]]&gt;
      </queryString>
      <field class="java.lang.String" name="name"/>
      ...
      <text>&lt;![CDATA[name]]&gt;</text>
      ...

How can I preserve CDATA on the output..?

mhkay · April 6th, 2007, 04:18 PM

Very odd. What XSLT transformation engine are you running and how are you invoking it?

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

ypomonh · April 8th, 2007, 05:02 PM

I'm working on cocoon. Is it a problem that my CDATA where created with a rule similar to:

Code:

<queryString>
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<![CDATA]]>[</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="child::info/child::document/child::sql:rowset/child::sql:row/child::sql:report_query"/>
    <xsl:text>]</xsl:text>
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]></xsl:text>
</queryString>

(couln't get cdata-section-elements to work)

mhkay · April 8th, 2007, 05:11 PM

I'm not sure what you mean "is it a problem".

Using disable-output-escaping is always creating a problem in the sense that your code will work in some environments and not others, and will be less reusable. But it may solve your immediate problem.

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