XQuery Tutorial XQuery Introduction DOM Node Types DOM Node DOM NodeList DOM NamedNodeMap DOM Document DOM Element DOM Attribute DOM Text DOM CDATA DOM Comment DOM XMLHttpRequest DOM Parser XSLT Elements Returns a sequence of element nodes that have an ID value equal to the value of one The cdata-section-elements attribute on xsl: output does no magic, it simply ensures that text content is wrapped in a CDATA section. However your stylesheet includes elements like Autotask as the contents of the body element, those elements then appear in the transformation result. cdata-section-elements xls:output has an option which allows to wrap content of certain tags with CDATA. However even if you set it up to wrap up content of script tags with CDATA (the rest of the code like in example 1) you will not get what you need. Karthick, Section 20.2 of the XSLT 2.0 specification states: If output escaping is disabled for text within an element that would normally be output using a CDATA section, because the element is listed in the cdata-section-elements, then the relevant text will not be included in a CDATA section. Soumik wrote: So, just wanted to know if it is possible to check if the Input contains the CDATA tags using XQuery? I don't think so. From the parser point of view, CDATA is not a tag but simply a section of serialized text that has not been escaped. XQuery Tutorial XQuery Intro XQuery Example XQuery FLWOR XQuery HTML XQuery Terms XQuery Syntax XQuery Add XQuery Select XQuery Functions References XSLT Elements XSLT/XPath Functions . XSLT Element. Complete XSLT Element Reference. cdata-section-elements="namelist" indent="yes Goals After this tutorial, you should understand • Part I XQuery expressions, types, and laws • Part II XQuery laws and XQuery core • Part III XQuery processing model The xml elements in the CDATA section is to contain the data from the FML32 buffer. So how do I create something like this in an