David Schwartz wrote:
> I'm outputing HTML (and Javascript), not XML.
> cdata-section-elements appears to be appropriate only where
> method=xml. Perhaps I'm missing something?

Yes,  <xsl:output cdata-section-elements="code"/> was what I intended.

Some references (including Michael Kay's book, which is one of the best 
hardcopy references I've seen for XSLT) do claim that 
cdata-section-elements is marked as "not applicable to html output". 
However, I've just rechecked and I don't see that restriction in the 
XSLT Recommendation itself. All I can say is "try it, and if it doesn't 
work ask the processor's authors why not."

But: No program ought to care whether you've used CDATA sections or 
individual-character escaping; that distinction is purely a convenience 
for humans. Any program which *insists* on one representation or the 
other is not processing the documents as intended by their spec. There 
are a few special cases where CDATA sections are worth considering -- 
mostly when the document source is intended to be hand-edited by humans 
-- but even there I consider them excessively fragile. So I would also 
beat up whoever wrote the code that is foisting this requirement upon you.