I was transforming some xml to xml another format and some of the text nodes could potentially contained invalid characters, so placing them in CDATA sections would be wise. I tried the following –
[code lang=”xml”]
…….
< ![CDATA[
]]>
[/code]
which of course did not work and resulted in what you see below. I knew this would happen but I was real busy and figured it worth a shot.
[code lang=”xml”]
<xsl:value-of select=”fields/field[normalize-space(@name)=’Description’]/value/text()” />
[/code]
Some digging resulted in the finding of the “cdata-section-elements” attribute which contains a whitespace-separated list of QNames so using –
[code lang=”xml”]
…….
[/code]
I get the desired result
[code lang=”xml”]
[/code]
Marvellous I tell you, It’s amazing what you can actually learn when you RTFM , in this case the XSL W3C recommendation.