Re: [xsl] Embedding XML in another XML

On 26.06.2018 13:38, Willem Van Lishout willemvanlishout(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I’m required to produce an XML file like this using XSLT 1.0:
>
> <?xml version=”1.0”?>
>
> <root>
>
> <element>
>
>      &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?&gt;
>        &lt;AXFRoot&gt;
>          &lt;MAObject type="default" mdclass="EPISODE"&gt;
>             &lt;GUID dmname=""&gt;595233000&lt;/GUID&gt;
>
>    .....
>
>    </element>
>
> </root>
>
>
> So basically I have to put a string-encoded XML structure inside another 
> XML. While I'm sure this is theoretically possible by just using 
> <xsl:text>, this does not seem like a sustainable way of working with 
> long and deep structures.
>
> Is this possible without resorting to 'heavier' programming solutions?
Evan Lenz has a quite sophisticated XSLT 1.0 stylesheet to "serialize" 
XML to a string http://lenzconsulting.com/xml-to-string/

> If XSLT 2.0 or 3.0 can offer a solution I'd also like to hear.
In XPath 2.0 you can use

  <element>
     <xsl:value-of select="unparsed-text('foo.xml')"/>
  </element>


or in XPath 3 the serialize function that Mike has already posted.
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