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Therefore, I think CDATA is pretty useful facility.
On 4/7/07, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Re: [xsl] Removing namespaces without escaping CDATA???
Subject: Re: [xsl] Removing namespaces without escaping CDATA??? From: "Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 19:38:06 +0530 |
Hi Mike, I beg to differ with you about CDATA section usefulness.
If the text in XML contains a lot of "<" or "&" characters - as program code often does - the XML element can be defined as a CDATA section. (ref: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp). Everything inside a CDATA section is ignored by the parser.
Therefore, I think CDATA is pretty useful facility.
If transformer and serializer should not be tightly coupled with this kind of syntax, <xsl:element name="qname" cdata-section="yes | no" ..
Can't we incorporate CDATA in XPath data model? i.e. would it be useful, if CDATA sections could be first class nodes, as text nodes or element nodes?
Also, specifying cdata-section-elements here, <xsl:output cdata-section-elements="qnames" /> seem to have a shortcoming, that it's too global (as I said earlier). Do you agree to this point?
If my suggestions make sense, perhaps this could become one of the requirement for XSLT 2.x/3.0 or XPath 2.x/3.0.
On 4/7/07, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The declaration, <xsl:output cdata-section-elements="qnames" > /> seems to have a shortcoming. It's not generic; in a sense > that it is global (all elements anywhere in the tree will be > affected by it). > > Any comments please.. >
I think the experience with disable-output-escaping shows that any facility that requires out-of-band communication between the transformer and the serializer is architecturally very bad news.
Mind you, I've never found cdata-section-elements very useful. It only serves to encourage people in the mistaken belief that CDATA section boundaries are information-bearing.
Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
-- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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