RE: Reparsing Embedded XML

> I've got XML that has more XML embedded as strings.
>  <doc>
>    <field>&lt;anotherField&gt;data&lt;/anotherField&gt;</field>
>    </doc>
>
> I need to be able to format the stuff inside the field.  It's 
> good XML.  The
> document() function looks close, but it wants a URI, not a string.
>
> Is there some way for me to run a transform on that string?
Saxon has an extension function saxon:parse(), specifically written for
people who have to cope with such appallingly designed source documents.
Just extract a string containing raw XML, pass it to saxon:parse, and
you get back the document node of a tree representation of the XML.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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