Re: how to "save" a context?

S Woodside wrote:
> Fortunately, I only want to serialize an XPath expression, not the XML 
> subtree. I think Dimitre's code does that.

Yep. That'll work.

> > Deserializing an XML string back into a node-set will definitely 
> > require an
> > extension function, because you need to run it through a real XML 
> > parser and
> > construct whatever DOM-like structure the vendor's implementation 
> > requires.
> 
> But if it's just an XPath expression ...?

Check your XSLT processor's docs for an extension function like
EXSLT's dyn:evaluate() [1], saxon:evaluate() [2], etc.

[1] http://exslt.org/dyn/functions/evaluate/index.html
[2] http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.2/extensions.html#evaluate

Mike

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