I have a data source that is only available through APIs, not through
URLs or files. I can represent this external data as XML, but how can I
make this data available to my XSL? The document() function seems to
require the first parameter be an URL, and the node-set extensions don't
seem to handle strings (at least not the Microsoft node-set extensions).
Where custom:GetData() basically returns some XML:
return( "<root><node>some text</node></root>" );
I have tried:
<xsl:variable name="extdata" select="msxsl:node-set( custom:GetData())" />
<xsl:value-of select="$extdata/root/node/text()" />
which gives 'cannot convert the operand to result tree fragment'.
I have also tried:
<xsl:variable name="extdata" select="document( custom:GetData())" />
<xsl:value-of select="$extdata/root/node/text()" />
Which gives no output. Do I have to make the data URL-accessible, or
how can I get this XML into my XSLT as an object instead of a string?
Should I convert the string to some other type of object before
returning it to the XSL? Of course I would prefer to avoid extensions
if possible. Hopefully there is something like document() that works on
strings instead of URLs?
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