Add CDATA to an xml file

cdata, xml, xslt

Solution

You either need to do this:

<xsl:template match="teaserText_fr">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;![CDATA[</xsl:text>
    <xsl:copy-of select="*"/>    
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]&gt;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

Or this:

<xsl:template match="teaserText_fr">
  <teaserText_fr>
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;![CDATA[</xsl:text>
    <xsl:copy-of select="*"/>    
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]&gt;</xsl:text>
  </teaserText_fr>
</xsl:template>

(I recommend the first approach)

and you should be all set.

To give the same treatment to any element whose name starts with "teaserText_":

<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(local-name(), 'teaserText_')]">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;![CDATA[</xsl:text>
    <xsl:copy-of select="*"/>    
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]&gt;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

Problem

I would like to add some `CDATA` tags around some xml tags XML source is (it's only a small part of my file) ``` <teaserText_fr> <div xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0"><p>2012 ist für viele Länder ein wichtiges Wahljahr. Die Reihe fühlt der weltweiten Demokratie auf den Zahn. </p> </div> </teaserText_fr> ``` What I would like is ``` <teaserText_fr> <![CDATA[ <div xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0"><p>2012 ist für viele Länder ein wichtiges Wahljahr. Die Reihe fühlt der weltweiten Demokratie auf den Zahn. </p> </div> ]]> </teaserText_fr> ``` My xslt is ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8" omit-xml-declaration="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd" indent="yes" /> <xsl:template match="node()|@*"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="teaserText_fr"> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;![CDATA[</xsl:text> <xsl:copy-of select="*"/> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]&gt;</xsl:text> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> ``` What I get is ``` </teaserText_de><![CDATA[<div xmlns="http://www.coremedia.com/2003/richtext-1.0" xmls:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><p>à partir du 10 janvier, ARTE diffuse "I love democracy", une série documentaire qui, en cette grand année électorale, prend le pouls démocratique de la planète.</p></div>]]><addTeaserText_de> ``` I lost my `teaserText_fr` tags, I don't understand why If possible, I would like to do so for some extra tags (with regexp like `[add|]TeaserText_[fr|de]` but I can't get it work ... " I did some tests all day long but I wasn't succesfull. Best regards, Guillaume

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