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RE: [xsl] Convert string from param to a nodeset in 2.0

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> > 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

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