Subject: RE: [xsl] identity transform - include CDATA's, etc From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:41:30 +0100 |
> however this is not a true identity transform since CDATA > sections enclosed > in the original xml document in <![CDATA[ ]]> is output as regular > characters. It is an identity transform of the data model. There are things in the original source document that are not represented in the data model, and these cannot be preserved through a transformation because they are lost even before the transformation starts. These include: CDATA sections entity references character encoding attribute order DOCTYPE declarations spaces around "=" signs in attributes and lots of other similar details. The thinking is that these are conveniences when creating an XML document but they should not be used to represent the information content of the document - they are superficial features of the external representation of the XML. Michael Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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