On 13/08/2012 21:15, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
Hi Folks,
I have an XSLT program that uses unparsed-text() to read in an XML document
from a URL, the program then does some string manipulations on the string
version of the XML document, and then outputs the result.
Question about the input to unparsed-text():
Instead of it consuming the XML document from a URL,
can it consume an in-memory XML document
(i.e., one that has already been parsed; say, a variable
whose value is an XML document)?
Sounds like a contradiction in terms. The function is called
unparsed-text because it is designed to process text that has not been
parsed. There are surely other better ways of processing parsed documents?
Question about reconstituting an XML document from the string version of the
XML document:
I can output the string version of the
XML document to a file and then read
the file back in as an XML document. But I'd like
to skip that intermediate step and go straight
from the string version of the XML document
to a full-fledged XML document. Is
there a way in XSLT to convert a string
to XML?
Not in XSLT 2.0. In XSLT 3.0 there is a function parse-xml() and this is
anticipated in extension functions such as saxon:parse() in some 2.0 processors.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
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