Peter Flynn wrote:
> Troot wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I was wondering if someone could clear this up for me. I have
> > constructed a sample for a bigger problem I'm having. So, given the xml
> > file:
> >
> > <?xml-stylesheet href="test.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
> > <test>
> >  <p><![CDATA[<b>This is bolded</b>]]></p>
> > </test>
>
> Read what the FAQ has to say about CDATA first:
> http://xml.silmaril.ie/authors/cdata/
>
> > and the stylesheet:
> >
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> > <xsl:template name="main" match="/">
> > 	<all_screens>
> > 		<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="/test/p" />
> > 	</all_screens>
> > </xsl:template>
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> > can some one tell me why the output is &lt;b&gt;This is
> > bolded&llt;/b&gt; instead of <b>This is bolded</b> (which is what I
> > thought disable-output-escaping is supposed to do)?
> >
> > I've tried this with IE and Firefox and both make a mess of it.
>
> Browsers don't support disable-output-escaping. I just ran the above
> through Saxon and it produced:
>
> <all_screens><b>This is bolded</b></all_screens>
>
> But why go to all that bother? Why not just say
>
>    <xsl:template match="/">
>      <all_screens>
>        <xsl:apply-templates select="/test/p"/>
>      </all_screens>
>    </xsl:template>
>
>    <xsl:template match="b">
>      <b>
>        <xsl:apply-templates/>
>      </b>
>    </xsl:template>
>
> and remove the CDATA section?
>
> ///Peter
> 
> 
> ///Peter

Thanks Peter and Martin, thats very helpful ;o)