How to wrap input xsml in c data using xslt - xslt

Question

input to the xslt will be like below:
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>
Output of the xsl should be like below:
<Output>
<![CDATA[
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>
]]>
</Output>
I have written below code but < and > are not replacing with < > in the output.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="output">
<output>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[</xsl:text>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> </xsl:text>
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]></xsl:text>
</output>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:copy-of select="$output"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Answer 1

Need to create CDATA out of variable like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="output">
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>
</xsl:variable>
<output>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[</xsl:text>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
</xsl:text>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?></xsl:text>
<xsl:copy-of select="$output"/>
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
]]></xsl:text>
</output>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Answer 2

CDATA sections are really just an alternate escaping mechanism: at an XML level your desired result is the <Output/> element with text content that happens to be the serialized output. DataPower includes a <dp:serialize/> extension that can do this.
I think a working stylesheet should look something like
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
extension-element-prefixes="dp"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:dp="http://www.datapower.com/extensions">
<xsl:output method="xml" cdata-section-elements="Output"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<Output>
<dp:serialize select="."/>
</Output>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
(This has always been a little bit odd construction, because you can embed XML in XML directly; if you control the application and schema you might consider trying to change it so you don't need to XML parse the text content of an XML element.)