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Dear Michel, Liam and Martin Honnen

Thanks for your detailed answer on this query.

Regards,
Ramkumar V

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From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 7:39 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Displaying element value in browser, which is inside
CDATA in XML

On 18/07/2011 12:41, Ramkumar V wrote:
> Hi, List
>
> I want to display anchor element attribute value in browser, but it is in
> CDATA.

There is no anchor element in your CDATA. If the CDATA markup were 
absent, there would be an anchor element, but CDATA means "character 
data", and its purpose is to say "the thing in here might look like an 
anchor element, but it isn't really, it's just ordinary text".

So, by including the CDATA markup, you have told the XML parser not to 
treat the <a>..</a> as an element. Your only remedy now is to extract 
the text of the CDATA and parse it again. You can't do this in standard 
XSLT, but you can do it with the help of an extension such as saxon:parse().

If the content of your CDATA section is HTML, and you want it copied 
directly to the output, then you can sometimes achieve this using 
disable-output-escaping, but whether this works or not depends on your 
XSLT processor and the way you are running it.

Michael Kay
Saxonica
> Please suggest anyone how to display this value?
>
> SAMPLE XML
> ==========
>
> <a class="page_break" name="page7"></a>
>
> <bk:text><![CDATA[Psychologists acknowledge that, as in the heroism of
Sully
> Sullenberger, sometimes an individual&#8217;s best moments emerge<a
> class="page_break" name="page7"></a>  amid the most difficult
> circumstances.]]></bk:text>
>
> Regards,
> Ramkumar V
>
>
>
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