RE: [xsl] Escaping nodeset content

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:47 PM 3/9/2006, Mike wrote:
> Call out to an extension function that serializes the node-set as lexical
> XML, and pass the lexical XML back as a string.
>
> Saxon has such a function built-in: see saxon:serialize().
>
> You can write your own serializer in XSLT if you must, but it's not much
> fun.

Oh, it's not so bad. Several of us have done it! :->

Check out http://xmlportfolio.com/xml-to-string/ (from Evan Lenz, back in '01).

(Using the extension function, if you have it, will be faster and 
easier. But this, you can hack.)

Cheers,
Wendell


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