Question

In XSLT, how do you select/copy part of the document as text only?

The change I want to make is to take part of the tree (tags and values both) and output it as text only (preferably with brackets HTML-encoded).

I tried to put a CDATA around my copy-of, but it simply put the copy-of command inside my document.

Edit:
See comment below

Answer 1

Try this, but note that it won’t handle nested CDATA correctly:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;</xsl:text>
<xsl:text>![CDATA[</xsl:text>

<xsl:copy-of select="..." />

<xsl:text>]]</xsl:text>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&gt;</xsl:text>