Is it possible to treat the content in a CDATA section as a node or
set of nodes?  The xml I am working with puts HTML markup in a CDATA
section.  Of course, these items are intended to simply copy as-is,
but I wish to translate the html into something else.

So you might have:

<xyz><![CDATA[<p>a paragraph</p><p>a paragraph</p><p>a paragraph</p>]]></xyz>

Maybe I want to tranlsate the<p>  tags into<div>  tags.  Any way to
set up a match on this, maybe use of node-set() function?

Looking for XSL 1.0 solution.

Thanks,
Karl..

if you mean html, then parsing the CDATA content (I think Saxon allows
that via an extension) might produce an error due to <img> without
a closing tag.

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