RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Missing CDATA sections

[Jeff Beal <jeff.beal@ansys.com>]

I'm pretty sure that most processors will throw away the <![CDATA[ and ]]>
regardless of validity, simply because the parser doesn't pass that
information along to the XSLT processor.  When the parser sees the CDATA
section, it simply passes all of the characters in that section to the
processor exactly as they are.


-----Original Message-----
From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:17 AM
To: fyl2xp1; docbook-apps
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Missing CDATA sections


At 3:15 PM +0100 7/11/02, fyl2xp1 wrote:
If I process this file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" 
"c:/docbook/docbkx412/docbookx.dtd">
<article>
   <sect1><title>Error Prone</title>
<![CDATA[
Im going to dissapear!
]]>
   <para>
     Yes that's right ladies and gentlemen, CDATA is gone!
   </para>
   </sect1>
</article>



Wild guess: it's a style sheet issue, but also an issue with your 
code. I don't think that's valid. The sect1 element does not allow 
mixed content. Thus it' not a huge surprise the stylesheet throws it 
away.

Remember, CDATA sections are syntax sugar. They are *not* elements. 
In this case, they are not substitutes for a para. I suspect if you 
wrap a para around the CDATA section like this, everything will work:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" 
"c:/docbook/docbkx412/docbookx.dtd">
<article>
   <sect1><title>Error Prone</title>
   <para>
<![CDATA[
Im going to dissapear!
]]>
</para>
   <para>
     Yes that's right ladies and gentlemen, CDATA is gone!
   </para>
   </sect1>
</article>


Debugging tip: when the stylesheets aren't giving you what you 
expect, validate your documents and correct any errors you find. In 
my experience this fixes about half of the problems I initially 
attribute to the stylesheets.
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