Re: [xsl] Can unparsed-text() consume an in-memory XML document? Can a string version of an XML document be converted into XML?

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Graydon wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:12:42AM +0100, David Carlisle scripsit:
> > On 13/08/2012 21:15, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> > > Is there a way in XSLT to convert a string to XML?
> >
> > That's called parsing. As Michael said XPath 3 drafts include a
> > parse-xml function, or many xslt 1 and 2 processors have such an
> > extension function, or, if you are feeling strange you could write a
> > parser in xslt.
>
> Is there any possibility of getting the XPath 3 functions to _not_
> require balanced trees?

There is 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-30/#func-parse-xml-fragment, to 
parse fragments.

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