Well then, I guess in this case it's ok to cheat:

<data has_cdata="True">

-or-

<cdata><![CDATA[ .. ]]</cdata>

The apply-templates and match is cleaner in the first example, I'll go
with that!

Karl..


On Dec 8, 2007 9:34 PM, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 2007-12-08 20:43 -0700, Karl Stubsjoen wrote:
> >Can you write a match for an element containing CDATA?
>
> No ... CDATA boundaries are not preserved in the XPath data
> model.  CDATA sections are just syntactic sugar and as such are not
> distinguished in the XML Information Set (see Appendix D):
>
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204
>
> >The thought
> >is:  raw web content in a CDATA element, and some web content will be
> >well formed.  So I might have something like:
> >
> ><root>
> >   <data>
> >     <div>foo bar<br/>foo bar</div><!-- well formed -->
> >   </data>
> >   <data><![DATA[
> >     <p>not so foo<br>barf<!-- not well formed -->
> >     ]>
> >   </data>
> ></root>
> >
> >In one case, I'd simply xsl:value-of the data element, and in the
> >other case, I'd write an identity transformation for it.
>
> Just by using the identity transform you will get the identical
> *information* in the result tree as in the source, you just won't get
> the identical syntax for that information.
>
> A downstream application based on the XML information set will not
> see a difference if the characters of your CDATA section are instead
> individually escaped.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
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