XSLT How to traverse cdata section that contains xml

Question

input:

<store xmlns="test">
    <item>book</item>
    <info><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?><value xmlns="value">
<price>11</price>
</value>]]>
    </info>
</store>

I want the output like below

<value xmlns="value">
    <item>book</item>
    <price>11</price>
</value>

Can i achieve this?

Answer 1

Can i achieve this?

Not in pure XSLT 1.0 or even XSLT 2.0.

If you wait to have an XSLT 3.0 XSLT processor (still a W3C WD (Working draft)), then you'd be able to use a function called parse-xml() to parse the text node child of info into a separate XML document.

In XSLT 1.0 or 2.0 you need to write an extension function, which when passed a string (like the value of info , parses it as XML and returns the parsed XmlDocument back to the transformation.