> I just wanted to mentioned, that I have tried the technique 
> below with Saxon, and it worked all right. Other processors 
> like Xalan-J might be using a different convention.

By saying it "worked all right", I think you mean it did something which
matched your guess as to what the OP wanted. In general though I don't think
that the effect of calling the Java toString() method on a Saxon node is
well-defined or predictable.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> 
> Regards,
> Mukul
> 
> On 7/14/06, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Omar,
> >  Please try something like this:
> >
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> > xmlns:String="http://www.sun.com/java.lang.String">
> >
> > <xsl:template match="/">
> >   <xsl:variable name="myxml">
> >      <xsl:copy-of select="env:Envelope/env:Body/*" />
> >   </xsl:variable>
> >   <xsl:value-of 
> > select="JavaClassRef:javaMethod(String:toString($myxml))" /> 
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mukul
> >
> > On 7/14/06, Omar Saeed <omar.saeed.email@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a SOAP Message in the XSL template and need to pass 
> > > everything inside the Body element to a java method that 
> takes a String.
> > >
> > > When I do the following:
> > > <xsl:template match="/">
> > >        <xsl:variable name="myxml">
> > >                <xsl:copy-of select="env:Envelope/env:Body/*" />
> > >        </xsl:variable>
> > >
> > >        <xsl:value-of select="JavaClassRef:javaMethod($myxml)" /> 
> > > </xsl:template>
> > >
> > > In the javaMethod I get only the values inside the 
> elements passed.
> > > How can I pass everything including the elements that are 
> inside the 
> > > Body element as String (the entire XML structure as String)? Do I 
> > > need to convert the XML to String?
> > > Or is it more a question of deserializing the XML ? How do I do 
> > > this, are there any libraries that provide this?
> > >
> > > Any help much appreciated.
> > > Omar