chris fellows wrote:
> I'm transforming my XML document with XSL and I need to wrap a URL using 
> CDATA.  The URL is returned from the XML using <xsl:value-of select="URL"/>. 
> The output should look like this:
> 
> <Something>
>     <URL><![CDATA[http://myurl/mypage.aspx?param1=10&param2=50>]]></URL>
> </Something>
> 
> Can someone tell me how to add the CDATA in the XSL?  I've tried escaping 
> using &lt;![CDATA] but Internet Explorer doesn't display the XML as CDATA.

Wrong approach. If your input contains isolated ampersands like that 
then it's not well-formed XML in the first place and won't be 
processable with any XML software. You'll get a parser error message 
saying that &param2 is a faulty entity reference or something like that. 
Nothing to do with CDATA: the error is in the input file.

Modify the input so that it's well-formed:
<URL>http://myurl/mypage.aspx?param1=10&amp;param2=50</URL>
then you won't need the CDATA section.

Bodging your output to accommodate broken input data is A Bad Idea: much 
better to fix the input data first. See 
http://xml.silmaril.ie/authors/cdata/ for more information.

///Peter