…perfectly fine of course! As the update keyword is BaseX-specific, your code (in contrast to mine) will also run with other processors with support for the File Module (such as Saxon).
Graydon Saunders graydonish@gmail.com schrieb am Mi., 26. Aug. 2020, 23:49:
Hi Christian --
Or I could just be a simple creature and use let $test as element(root) :=
<root> <content>{serialize( <div>words <b>bold</b> words</div> )} </content> </root>
return file:write('/home/graydon/test2.xml', $test, map { "method": "xml", "cdata-section-elements": "content"})
Which gives
<root> <content><![CDATA[<div>words <b>bold</b> words</div>]]></content> </root>
(Your solution is considerably more elegant but would be much trickier to use the actual case.)
Thank you!
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 5:12 PM Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Graydon,
I can’t say much about serialization in XSLT, but the serialization of CDATA sections in XQuery is indeed focused on text nodes [1]:
“The cdata-section-elements parameter contains a list of expanded QNames. If the expanded QName of the parent of a text node is a member of the list, then the text node MUST be output as a CDATA section, […].”
If you want to serialize the descendants of specific elements as text, you could try this:
declare option output:method 'xml'; declare option output:cdata-section-elements 'div';
let $test := <root>
<content> <div>words <b>bold</b> words</div> </content> </root> return $test update { .//div ! (replace value of node . with serialize(node())) }
Hope this helps, Christian
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization-31/#XML_CDATA-SECTION-ELEMEN...
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:00 PM Graydon Saunders graydonish@gmail.com wrote:
Using 9.4.2 and 943-20200826.181852 I get the same result:
let $test as element(root) :=
<root> <content> <div>words</div> </content> </root>
return file:write('/home/graydon/test2.xml', $test, map { "method": "xml", "cdata-section-elements": "content"})
does not work, in the sense that no CDATA block is created.
let $test as element(root) :=
<root> <content> <div>words</div> </content> </root>
return file:write('/home/graydon/test2.xml', $test, map { "method": "xml", "cdata-section-elements": "div"})
does work, in the sense that the text contents of div gets wrapped in
CDATA.
If I try let $test as element(root) :=
<root> <content> <div>words <b>bold</b> words</div> </content> </root>
return file:write('/home/graydon/test2.xml', $test, map { "method": "xml", "cdata-section-elements": "div"})
I get
<root> <content> <div><![CDATA[words ]]><b>bold</b><![CDATA[ words]]></div> </content> </root>
which makes me think that only text node children of the element get
wrapped in a CDATA block.
I would expect (from the way XSLT processors usually behave) that the
content of an element with element children would be serialized into a CDATA block. Am I confused? Is this a bug? is there a more appropriate way to declare the contents of the content element a CDATA block?
Thanks! Graydon