I am trying to convert a document with content like the following into another document, leaving the CDATA exactly as it was in the first document, but I haven't figured out how to preserve the CDATA with XSLT.
Initial XML:
<node>
<subNode>
<![CDATA[ HI THERE ]]>
</subNode>
<subNode>
<![CDATA[ SOME TEXT ]]>
</subNode>
</node>
Final XML:
<newDoc>
<data>
<text>
<![CDATA[ HI THERE ]]>
</text>
<text>
<![CDATA[ SOME TEXT ]]>
</text>
</data>
</newDoc>
I've tried something like this, but no luck, everything gets jumbled:
<xsl:element name="subNode">
<xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:element>
Any ideas how to preserve the CDATA?
Thanks! Lance
Using ruby/nokogiri
Update: Here's something that works.
<text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[</text>
<value-of select="normalize-space(text())" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
<text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]></text>
That will wrap all text() nodes in CDATA, which works for what I need, and it will preserve html tags inside the text.
You cannot preserve the precise sequence of CDATA nodes if they're mixed with plain text nodes. At best, you can force all content of a particular element in the output to be CDATA, by listing that element name in xsl:output/@cdata-section-elements
:
<xsl:output cdata-section-elements="text"/>