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RE: Convert string from param to a nodeset in 2.0

2004-10-15 07:08:28

I believe I need to specify type string on the parameter 
that receives 
the string, and then perform another operation on that.  
I'm sure I'm 
missing something obvious here...

The operation of making a node set out of a string is that of 
an XML parser. This isn't a standard XSLT2 feature, however 
"all" existing XSLT2 engines offer an extension function that 
provides an XML parser at run time.

For "the rest", if they support (or can be made to support by 
supplying a suitable entity resolver) the data: uri scheme you can use

select="document('data:text/xml,<foo><bar/></foo>')
ie

select="document(concat('data:text/xml,',$param))"


Thanks David,

Not that obvious then :)

cheers
andrew