Saxon

You are attempting to write lexical XML with the code:

<xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;?xml',substring-after(//root/text(),'&lt;?xml'))" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

However, disable-output-escaping is an instruction to the serializer (it's the serializer that performs escaping, therefore if there is no serializer, there is nothing to disable). In this case there is no serializer, because you are sending the transformation output to an XdmDestination. So disable-output-escaping is ignored, and you therefore end up with the < character escaped as <

You could make this work if the output were sent to a serializer. However, you would still have to be very careful, because the output would say encoding="iso-8859-1" in its XML declaration, and there is no guarantee that the output would actually be in this encoding.

The preferred way of handling this is to re-parse the XML contained in the CDATA section using the fn:parse-xml() function. Better still, avoid putting XML in CDATA sections in the first place - it's not what they were designed for.

Hi Kay,

Thanks for your response,

I do not have any knowledge on how to use XSLT functions.

Can you please modify below function based on your suggestion using " fn:parse-xml()"

<xsl:value-of select="concat('<?xml',substring-after(//root/text(),'<?xml'))" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

Thanks for your help

Thanks a lot Kay. I will try to use that

Hi Good Morning Kay,

This time I have changed the code using Serializer, It almost solved the problem that have with '&lt', '&gt'. Now I am getting proper xml.

But everytime the output xml contains the XML header ""

Is there any option for us to not to generate that xml header each and every time when we process them?

Option to omit the xml header generation? Can you please help us ?

Thanks for your time Kay.

XsltCompiler compiler = processor.NewXsltCompiler();

            XsltExecutable executable = compiler.Compile(new Uri(xsltPath));       

            XsltTransformer xslTrans = executable.Load();

            XdmNode input = processor.NewDocumentBuilder().Build(new Uri(xmlPath));

            xslTrans.InitialContextNode = input;

            Serializer serializer = processor.NewSerializer();

            serializer.SetOutputWriter(Console.Out);

            xslTrans.Run(serializer);

sorry in previous post, xml header is missing which I was reporting about

But everytime the output xml contains the XML header ""

I have figured that out,

By adding serializer.SetOutputProperty(Serializer.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes"), I can able to omit the declaration.

I am good Key.

Thank you

Thansk Kay