How can i put all tag contents into CDATA?

[DZ]

How can i put all tag contents into <![CDATA[...]]> (i mean using XSL)

For example. I have

....
<name>
<firstname>John</firstname>
<lastname>Malkovich</lastname>
<name>
.....

And i want to get:
<name><![CDATA[
<firstname>Alexey</firstname>
<lastname>Alexeev</lastname>
]]></name>

[Dimitre Novatchev [MVP XML]]

One must avoid to do this, if possible.

Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev [XML MVP],
FXSL developer, XML Insider,

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html

"DZ" <al*************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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How can i put all tag contents into <![CDATA[...]]> (i mean using XSL)

For example. I have

...
<name>
<firstname>John</firstname>
<lastname>Malkovich</lastname>
<name>
....

And i want to get:
<name><![CDATA[
<firstname>Alexey</firstname>
<lastname>Alexeev</lastname>
]]></name>

[Patrick TJ McPhee]

In article <aa**************************@posting.google.com >,
DZ <al*************@hotmail.com> wrote:
% How can i put all tag contents into <![CDATA[...]]> (i mean using XSL)
%
% For example. I have
%
% ...
% <name>
% <firstname>John</firstname>
% <lastname>Malkovich</lastname>
% <name>
% ....
%
% And i want to get:
% <name><![CDATA[
% <firstname>Alexey</firstname>
% <lastname>Alexeev</lastname>
% ]]></name>

You can't do this with XSL. What you've written is exactly the same as

<name>
&lt;firstname>Alexey&lt;/firstname>
&lt;lastname>Alexeev&lt;/lastname>
</name>

and the XSLT processor is free to pick its quoting method, which will
always be to use &lt; because apart from me nobody seems to like CDATA
sections much.

Actually, I suppose you could do it by building it (including the <!CDATA[[
and ]]>) in an xsl:text element and disabling output escaping, then
serialising the result tree. I'll leave that as an exercise.
--

Patrick TJ McPhee
East York Canada
pt**@interlog.com