Re: [xsl] Embedding XML in another XML

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26.06.2018 13:38, Willem Van Lishout willemvanlishout@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ibm required to produce an XML file like this using XSLT 1.0:
>
> <?xml version=b1.0b?>
>
> <root>
>
> <element>
>
>  B B B  &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?&gt;
>  B B B B B  &lt;AXFRoot&gt;
>  B B B B B B B  &lt;MAObject type="default" mdclass="EPISODE"&gt;
>  B B B  B B B B B B  &lt;GUID dmname=""&gt;595233000&lt;/GUID&gt;
>
>  B  .....
>
>  B  </element>
>
> </root>
>
>
> So basically I have to put a string-encoded XML structure inside another 
> XML. While I'm sure this is theoretically possible by just using 
> <xsl:text>, this does not seem like a sustainable way of working with 
> long and deep structures.
>
>
> Is this possible without resorting to 'heavier' programming solutions?

Evan Lenz has a quite sophisticated XSLT 1.0 stylesheet to "serialize" 
XML to a string http://lenzconsulting.com/xml-to-string/


> If XSLT 2.0 or 3.0 can offer a solution I'd also like to hear.

In XPath 2.0 you can use

  <element>
     <xsl:value-of select="unparsed-text('foo.xml')"/>
  </element>


or in XPath 3 the serialize function that Mike has already posted.