Re: Can unparsed-text() consume an in-memory XML docu

I have an XSLT program that uses unparsed-text() to read in an XML
document from a URL, the program then does some string manipulations
on the string version of the XML document, and then outputs the
result.

Question about the input to unparsed-text():

Instead of it consuming the XML document from a URL, can it consume
an in-memory XML document (i.e., one that has already been parsed;
say, a variable whose value is an XML document)?

Question about reconstituting an XML document from the string version
of the XML document:

I can output the string version of the XML document to a file and
then read the file back in as an XML document. But I'd like to skip
that intermediate step and go straight from the string version of the
XML document to a full-fledged XML document. Is there a way in XSLT
to convert a string to XML?

Cheers,
Wendell

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