parse-xml removes CDATA in text content

> Hi all, > When using parse-xml(-fragment), wrapping CDATA sections are removed and the > text content within the original CDATA is returned. > > For example: > parse-xml-fragment("<newNode><data><![CDATA[{cdata}]]></data></newNode>") > > returns > > <newNode> > <data>{cdata}</data> > </newNode> > > But I need this: > > <newNode> > <data><![CDATA[{cdata}]]></data> > </newNode> > > Do I miss something? > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >

> Erdal, > > It's hard to know what you're missing, exactly. On the other hand the > behavior you report is the correct behavior given the XDM (the data > model underlying BaseX). > > The XDM presents an XML document as a tree of nodes, and does not > represent whether any text content (text node leaves of this tree) > have been represented, in a serialization (i.e., in XML as a > text-based data format amenable to parsing), using one or more CDATA > marked sections. > > This means that unless you go to a lot of extra trouble, you won't > ordinarily be able to "round trip" a CDATA marked section through a > parsing and serialization cycle. (Plus, generally speaking, this > requirement is usually an effort to provide a functionality for which > there are better solutions in any case. Developers sometimes think > they need a CDATA marked section when they actually don't.) > > On the other hand, serializers can often be configured with a > specification of where text nodes should be wrapped in CDATA marked > sections. See http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Serialization for BaseX's > support for this (using the cdata-section-elements parameter). This > won't let you "keep" CDATA marked sections in your input, but it does > let you get them into the output in places you designate. > > Yet -- if this is related to your earlier thread -- I doubt that I > understand exactly why escaping your { as {{ is not as good a solution > as using a call to parse-xml() to wrap the XML syntax. Certainly I > don't see any reason why it should not perform as well: won't the call > to parse the string as XML take just as long as the bare XQuery syntax > parse, which is happening in any case? (Of course I have no > measurements.) > > Cheers, Wendell > > Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com > XML | XSLT | electronic publishing > Eat Your Vegetables > _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Erdal Karaca <erdal.karaca.de at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > When using parse-xml(-fragment), wrapping CDATA sections are removed and > the > > text content within the original CDATA is returned. > > > > For example: > > parse-xml-fragment("<newNode><data><![CDATA[{cdata}]]></data></newNode>") > > > > returns > > > > <newNode> > > <data>{cdata}</data> > > </newNode> > > > > But I need this: > > > > <newNode> > > <data><![CDATA[{cdata}]]></data> > > </newNode> > > > > Do I miss something? > > > > Thanks! > > > > _______________________________________________ > > BaseX-Talk mailing list > > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk > > >

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Erdal Karaca <erdal.karaca.de at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > When using parse-xml(-fragment), wrapping CDATA sections are removed and the > text content within the original CDATA is returned. > > For example: > parse-xml-fragment("<newNode><data><![CDATA[{cdata}]]></data></newNode>") > > returns > > <newNode> > <data>{cdata}</data> > </newNode> > > But I need this: > > <newNode> > <data><![CDATA[{cdata}]]></data> > </newNode> > > Do I miss something? > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >

> replace(replace('<x><text>{abc}</text><text><![CDATA[{xyz}]]></text></x>', > '\{', '{{'),'\}', '}}')

> Hi Erdal, > > similar to Wendell, I’m not quite sure what’s your actual reason for > using CDATA elements, the parse-xml() function etc. Talking about your > example.. > > > > replace(replace('<x><text>{abc}</text><text><![CDATA[{xyz}]]></text></x>', > > '\{', '{{'),'\}', '}}') > > ..would you like to interpret "abc" as XQuery? > > Christian >

> - Read external file which contains user provided contents (maybe, with > curly braces in some text contents or embedded in CDATA sections) > - Replace an existing node in DB with the read xml fragment using > parse-xml-fragment()