How do I force xslt transformation to load data into cdata sections?

Question

I have a client who requires all text in the xml I supply them with to be in CDATA sections. I understand that text should not need to be in CDATA as it has already been parsed and transformed when it is supplied to the client. However, no matter how sure I am, they still need the CDATA sections. Sigh.

I am processing my data with Saxon 9.3, using the command line transform command.

Answer 1

Well as your question title talks about XSLT and your question is flagged as XSLT, the XSLT way to ensure a result element's content is serialized as a CDATA section is to use the cdata-section-elements attribute on the xsl:output element (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#serialization) listing all elements you want to output as CDATA sections. Thus if you know the elements you want to output as CDATA sections when writing the stylesheet it is a simple as listing them in that attribute. Does that help? Or do you want to postprocess arbitrary XML with XSLT to add CDATA sections?