Hi David,

the rtf shown was indeed just an illustration, but can be very big.

Do you know where to get the exslt node-set extension? It is not in the
source-code provided by exslt.org (though it is said on the website).
Others have found this out too.

Greetings,

Rob


On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 10:47 +0000, David Carlisle wrote:
> > So ok..., how do one passes the string through the 'document' command
> > without losing the markup. Do we not have to convert the markup first,
> > before passing it into the document command.
> 
> well it depends, in the example you posted the url string that needed to
> contain tags was just a constant variable in your input and I suggested
> just changing that variable to have markup instead of element nodes.
> 
> If that was just an artifact of the way you simplified it for posting
> and really your $url variable comes from some XML that is constructed
> somewhere then you need to serialise it to a string.
> 
> some systems have extensions to do that, eg saxon8 has
> http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/extensions/functions/serialize.html
> (I can't remember if saxon6 had a similar one)
> or you can apply templates in a mode that does serialisation
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect4/N10301.html#d13755e49
> But if your xml is in a result tree fragment then you'll need to use
> saxon (or exslt) node-set() extension before you can apply templates to
> it.
> 
> David