RE: [xsl] use cases for d-o-e

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> In the case of outputting nearly-but-not-quite-XML formats such as *SP
> (and now, regretably, XQuery) it might be possible to
> consider a variant
> of the text output method that serialised element nodes as XML markup
> rather than discarded them and processed content. That would mean
> switching from xml output method with d-o-e to the text output method
> would not involve explictly calling templates to serialize the node
> structure.

I was wondering about another approach, a serialize() method that returns
the XML serialization of (say) an element node, as a character string, which
you can then insert into text output.

Mike Kay


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