RE: [docbook-apps] Including plain text: CDATA

["Robert Shields" <rshields@star.net.uk>]

Hi,


On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 07:10:40PM +0100, Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> I followed Bob Stayton's advice in "Chapter 19. Modular DocBook files;

> Including plain text" of his "DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide".
> 
> Is there any good solution if the included file contains the "special"

> XML characters (&, <, >, and ")? I don't want these characters to be 
> converted to their respective entities, but instead want to wrap them 
> in CDATA sections to appear verbatim in the output.


Assuming the output method is xml, not text:
This is not attractive, but it works, if I understand the problem
correctly:


<xsl:variable
name="OpenCDATASection"><![CDATA[<![]]><![CDATA[CDATA[]]></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable
name="CloseCDATASection"><![CDATA[]]]]><![CDATA[>]]></xsl:variable>
	
<xsl:value-of select="$OpenCDATASection" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
<xsl:value-of select="node" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$CloseCDATASection"
disable-output-escaping="yes"/>



Is that a viable solution?

Regards,

Rob Shields



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sco.com] 
> Sent: 02 December 2003 09:05
> To: Michael Wiedmann
> Cc: DocBook-Apps ML
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Including plain text: CDATA
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:53:57AM +0100, Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> > Bob Stayton wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm not surprised you didn't get any answers on this one.
> > > I was hoping someone would have a brilliant solution, but 
> it doesn't 
> > > look like it.  Basically it is really hard to get angle 
> brackets as 
> > > text in your HTML or XML output as it breaks the processing model.
> > 
> > Is your explanation valid for output method "text" too 
> (which is what 
> > I have)?
> 
> Huh?  I missed the part where you said you
> were using the "text" output method.  If that
> is the case, then you shouldn't have a
> problem.  The rendering of &lt; to text output
> is simply < as you want.  If you aren't getting
> that, then something is wrong with your processor.
>  
> > > 2.  You can get literal angle brackets for HTML or XML 
> output when 
> > > your text is contained in:
> > > 
> > > <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">...</xsl:text>
> > > 
> > > But this is tricky to do for your input, because
> > > you cannot put a <xsl:value-of> element inside
> > > an <xsl:text> element.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to get the contents of the file in a variable 
> > with <xsl:copy-of> (or similar) and the use this variable in 
> > <xsl:text>...</xsl:text> ?
> 
> That's what I was trying to say.  "Use a variable" means
> using <xsl:value-of select="$variable"/>, which is not
> allowed inside xsl:text.
> 
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