Exactly.
As mentioned in my original posting, I have tried some of these extensions,
and obviously there's some basics I'm missing. 
I'm using the <oXygen/> debugger with the a test file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:transform version="2.0"  
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
        xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
        xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions" 
        xmlns:xdt="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-datatypes" 
        xmlns:dyn="http://exslt.org/dynamic" 
        xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common" 
        xmlns:saxon="http://saxon.sf.net" 
        extension-element-prefixes="saxon dyn exsl">
  <xsl:template match="/">
        A: <xsl:value-of select="function-available('dyn:evaluate')"/>
        B: <xsl:value-of select="function-available('exsl:node-set')"/>
        C: <xsl:value-of select="function-available('saxon:evaluate')"/>
        D: <xsl:value-of select="function-available('saxon:parse')"/>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
Result specifying Saxon processor:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        A: false
        B: true
        C: false
        D: false
Result specifying Xalan processor:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
        A: true
        B: false
        C: false
        D: false
Kind of strange that Saxon does not support the Saxon extensions?
But perhaps this is an <oXygen/> dependant issue, I guess.
 - Per Osnes -
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Fra: Florent Georges [mailto:darkman_spam(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)fr] 
Sendt: 29. november 2006 13:46
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Emne: Re: [xsl] Find node-set from string
Per Osnes wrote:
  Hi
Q1: Is there any other alternatives for such a conversion?
  You want to parse the string as XML.  It is not standard, but some
processors provide an extension function to do that, for example
saxon:parse().
  Regards,
--drkm
        
        
                
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