RE: [xsl] (newby) extraction of CDATA nodes to different XML files

>      Maybe all the guy wants to do is copy the contents of the cdata
> sections to individual files.

Yes, perhaps, I was waiting for further clarification of the requirement.
> 
> As one of the solutions mentioned,
> if the 3 nodes containing cdata sections were
> 
> <foo><![CDATA[   .....snip.....   ]]></foo>
> <bar><![CDATA[   .....snip.....   ]]></bar>
> <foobar><![CDATA[   .....snip.....   ]]></foobar>
> 
> All he needs is 3 templates and the logic to write the content out to
> individual files can be nested in those templates.
> 
> As for writing to multiple files, I remember reading 
> somewhere XSLT is not good at this sort of thing.

In XSLT 2.0 you can write multiple files using xsl:result-document.

However, logically you do it the same way in 1.0: you run three passes over
the input, one to produce each output file. The only difference in 2.0 is
that these three passes can be done in the same transformation.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/