RE: [xsl] Returning a document fragment from Xalan extension function

["Robert Koberg" <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

A simpler way to handle this might be to create a URIResolver (check google)
and return the string (new StreamSource(new StringReader(str))) to a
document("my_string_identifier") function call. This will give you what you
want. Then you won't have to deal with extensions and converting your string
to a Node.

Best,
-Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-
> list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michal Urban
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:08 PM
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hello all, this is my first posting regarding my very first Xalan
> extension
> function in Java, I'll appreciate your thoughts:
> 
> I'm processing the text() nodes and possibly adding markup to plain text
> (via external calls to "sed" - I have a set of rather tricky rules
> to perform ;-).
> 
> When I return the result as a String, any inline "<elem>" gets translated
> into "&lt;elem&gt;" in the output. I can understand this since that's how
> a
> String should probably behave...
> 
> When I create a DOM Document out of the text result and return it as a
> Node
> or DocumentFragment, any added markup is lost and only concatenated text()
> content from the result tree gets into the Xalan output.
> 
> What is the proper way of passing the entire "enriched" structure into the
> output?
> 
> I can actually get by using the "String" method with an additional "sed"
> pass of the output file replacing "&lt;" etc. with proper markup, but
> that's
> certainly a crude way of doing it...
> 
> Can anybody think about a better way of doing this (instead of
> Xalan-XSLT/Java/sed "contraption"). I looked into XSLT 2.0 (Saxon 7) and
> EXSLT but I don't think plain regexp match/replace will cut it here - sed
> scripts are more powerful/convenient (especially the external and XSL
> independent config - based on XSLT params or data).
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Michal Urban
> 
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