Xslt Filters On Xml Output. Cdata-section-elements And Omit-xml-declaration Problems.

Hi All,



I'm using some xslt documents to transform the xml output of my Reports
but have come across two curiosities where the xslt filter seems to
behave unusually.



Firstly, I need the final saved file to have an xml declaration, which
I believe it should do by default. Even if I put
omit-xml-declaration="no" in the xsl:output tag I don't get an xml
declaration. At present we have a custom job that writes these
declarations back into the xml after SRS has saved it.



Secondly and more importantly, I need to have some of my output tags
wrapped in CDATA sections. I've tried using the cdata-section-elements
attribute, again with no luck.

my XSLT looks something like this (simplified for space)



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8" media-type="text/xml" omit-xml-declaration="no" cdata-section-elements="description"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:for-each select="Report/table1/Detail_Collection/Detail">

<item>

<description>


<xsl:value-of select="@Description"/>

</description>

</item>

</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>



The output is something like:



<item>

<description>My first description text...</description>

</item>


<item>


<description>My seconddescription text...</description>


</item>



What I want is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<item>


<description><![CDATA[My first description text...]]></description>


</item>



<item>



<description><![CDATA[My secondfirst description text...]]></description>



</item>



All help gratefully appreciated.



Thanks - Andrew.