Your solution would work if you were using an XSLT processor that
supported disable-output-escaping. It seems you aren't. The fact that
d-o-e is non-portable is one of the reasons we often give for avoiding
it.

Another approach might be to use saxon:serialize(), or an equivalent
home-grown extension function of your own.

Best solution would be to find the person who designed this XML
structure and get them to mend their ways. Or you could devise a
sanitary XML representation of the data, generate that, and then
postprocess it using non-XSLT techniques (e.g. change <cdata>...</cdata>
to
<![CDATA[...]]> using a text editor).

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Jason Cunningham
> Sent: 04 August 2003 15:19
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Need to wrap XML in <![CDATA[...]]> tags
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a strange requirement to transform
> 
> <sample>
>   <name>
>     <firstName>Mickey</firstName>
>     <lastName>Mouse</lastName>
>   </name>
> </sample>
> 
> into
> 
> <sample>
>   <person>
>     <![CDATA[
>       <name>
>         <firstName>Mickey</firstName>
>         <lastName>Mouse</lastName>
>       </name>
>     ]]>
>   </person>
> </sample>
> 
> I've written this XSL
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:output method="xml"/>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>     <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>     </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template match='*[name() = "sample"]'>
>     <sample>
>       <person>
>         <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
>           &lt;![CDATA[
>         </xsl:text>
>         <xsl:copy-of select="./node()"/>
>         <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
>           ]]&gt;
>         </xsl:text>
>       </person>
>     </sample>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> that gets me to
> 
> <sample>
>   <person>
>     &lt;![CDATA[
>       <name>
>         <firstName>Mickey</firstName>
>         <lastName>Mouse</lastName>
>       </name>
>     ]]&gt;
>   </person>
> </sample>
> 
> Unfortunately, this isn't good enough, for the system I am 
> interfacing with. 
>   I can not figure out how I can insert an unescapted '<' 
> into the output - 
> I've read that '<' isn't allowed inside the xsl:text tag.
> 
> Has anyone any ideas?
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Jason
> 
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