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From: Andreas Hartmann <andreas@apache.org>
Subject: Re: Tags in the value of an XSLT variable?
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:02:46 +0200
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Andrew Chamberlain schrieb:
> Hi Betty/Derek,
> 
> Thanks for getting back.
> 
> Yes, that's certainly helped.  I'm now confident that my variable also 
> contains the tags in addition to the values.  It was by changing the "." 
> for "@* | node()" that did it.
> 
> So my xslt looks like this:
> 
>     <xsl:variable name="gml">
>       <xsl:copy-of select="@* | node()"/>
>     </xsl:variable>
> 
> However, I now believe this variable is still a Node-Tree, and not a 
> String.  I need it to be the latter so I can pass the XML excerpt to the 
> Java method I mentioned earlier (using xalan to do so).
> 
> Is there a way of casting/translating a node tree into a String?

That would be XML serializing. AFAIK XSLT is not capable of this (I 
don't know about XSLT 2.0, though). Why do you have to convert the 
fragment to a string? Wouldn't it be more straightforward to pass the 
fragment to the Java code, so that it doesn't have to be parsed again?

-- Andreas


> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Andy
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Derek Hohls wrote:
>> And that is not a "trick", but standard XSLT; see:
>> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N1930.html#d3389e91
>> as select="." only selects the value (string) inside the tag/s.
>>
>>   
>>>>> On 2008/06/27 at 06:48, in message <2415.207.168.47.25.1214585293.squirrel@www.eccnet.com>, "Betty Harvey" <harvey@eccnet.com> wrote:
>>>>>         
>> Try this for your xsl:copy:
>>
>> <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" /></xsl:copy>
>>
>> <quote who="Andrew Chamberlain">
>>   
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> It's quite possible that this is more XSLT-related than Cocoon itself,
>>> but wasn't sure where else to post.
>>>
>>> I'm using an XSL transformer and need to capture a tree fragment in the
>>> value of variable ... including the tags themselves.  The reason for
>>> this is because I need to pass the XML excerpt (as a string) to a Java
>>> class which is specifically written to parse it.
>>>
>>> I'm trying the following, but this only seems to include the values, and
>>> not the tags:
>>>
>>>     <xsl:variable name="gml">
>>>       <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>>>     </xsl:variable>
>>>
>>> Can anyone help?  Is there a trick for this?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>     
>>
>>
>>
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