An XML document contains another XML element, which is wrapped in CDATA.
How can the wrapped XML be used for XSL and XSL-FO transformation (version 1)?
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An XML document contains another XML element, which is wrapped in CDATA.
How can the wrapped XML be used for XSL and XSL-FO transformation (version 1)?
This is not possible with standard XSLT 1.0 or 2.0, in a single transformation.
It can be done using Saxon 9 Professional Edition or Enterprise Edition. These products have a
saxon:parse()extension function. Or use the XPath 3.0parse-xml()function, which is also supported by recent versions of Saxon PE/EE.As @grtjn points out, it is possible to do it with a two-pass process. Stylesheet 1 turns the CDATA-wrapped text into parseable XML (using
<xsl:value-of select="whatever" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>). Stylesheet 2 then processes the serialized result produced by stylesheet 1.