cdata section elements and version in xsl:output

bsridharg · July 7th, 2010, 04:52 PM

Hi,

I am generating an rss feed. The elements (title and description) in the feed needs to be wrapped with CDATA. In my xsl:output I am passing the title and description to the attribute cdata-section-elements.

<xsl:output name="feed" method="xml" cdata-section-elements="title description" indent="yes"/>

This works fine. But I don't get an xml version information in the generated file as I am not including the attribute omit-xml-declaration="yes" in xsl:output
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

If I pass the attribute I don't see the cdata wrapped to the elements
<xsl:output name="feed" method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" cdata-section-elements="title description" indent="yes"/>

I didnot understand the relation between these two attributes. Is it mandatory that a generated xml file should have the version, if I tried to skip the omit-xml-declaration attribute to get cdata wrapped to the elements?

Any information will be of great help.

Thanks,
irs

mhkay · July 7th, 2010, 05:39 PM

I can't see any reason why these two attribute should interact.

I suggest you provide a sample stylesheet, show the output you are getting on your processor (and tell us which this is), and let us try it on some different processors.