PHP and XML CDATA problem

[gethinw]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm having a few problems with using PHP to handle XML data. Basically, I'm getting data from a database, wrapping this in an XML document then performing an XSL transformation on it. This is all fine, until I want to include some HTML code snippets. I'm doing this using createCDATASection, but this seems to produce "<!--[CDATA[...]]-->" rather than "<![CDATA[...]]>", meaning that the XSL processor doesn't "see" the section at all.

 

Here's some example code to explain better:

 
$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument("1.0","ISO-8859-1");
$datasection = $xmlDoc->createElement("data");
$datasection = $xmlDoc->appendChild($datasection);
$data = $xmlDoc->createCDATASection("<b>This</b> is an HTML <br /> snippet");
$data = $datasection->appendChild($data);

//print $xmlDoc->saveXML(); produces "<data><!--[CDATA[<b>This</b> is an HTML <br /> snippet]]--></data>"

$xslDoc = newDOMDocument();
$xslDoc->load("view.xsl");

$xslProc = new XsltProcessor();
$xslProc->importStylesheet($xslDoc);

$output = $xslProc->transformToDoc($xmlDoc);

print $output->saveXML();

produces "<div></div>", whereas transforming on data.xml containing

<data><![CDATA[<b>This</b> is an HTML <br /> snippet]]></data>

gives "<div><b>This</b> is an HTML <br /> snippet</div>" as expected

 

view.xsl:

 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<div>
<xsl:value-of select="data"/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

 

Any ideas on how to get around this problem?

 

Thanks,

Gethin

[gethinw]

Bump... Ideas anyone?