Re: copying CData sections from the source to destination documents

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

> So, is there a way that I can specify that a node and its descendants
> should be copied 'as is'?

No.

CDATA sections (like entity references) are not considered to be part of
the document tree in an XPath processor. They are just an authoring
convenience. Not seeing CDATA markup is like not being able to tell if "
or ' were used around the attribute values in the original document.

<![CDATA[&&&&&&]]>
produces an _identical_ input tree to
&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;
so there is no way that XSL can distinguish these.

What you can do is request that certain elements are always output using
CDATA sections.

David

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