Article:		Controlling Whitespace, Part Two
Subject:		CDATA
Date:		2002-02-13 14:06:19
From:		Bob DuCharme
Response to: CDATA
Making something a CDATA section is a way of saying "don't treat this as a parsable XML, just pass it along as-is," so I avoid it wherever possible. The XSLT Recommendation offers tricks for adding things to the result tree as CDATA, but doesn't say anything that I could find about dealing with CDATA on the source tree. This didn't suprise me, if the reason for having CDATA is to tell a parser to leave it alone. If you want the parser to get the data and hand it to the XSLT processor in a way that you can get it and manipulate it, it's best to not have it be CDATA. Is this an option? Bob

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