Re: Need to render input document as string form of XM

Michael,

Believe me, I'm trying to get Saxon in, but for now, we're stuck with
the old Xalan (I think 2.7.2) that's repackaged into the
Sun (Oracle) JRE...

So there is some explicit serialization required?  I guess I'll have
to write some complicated recursive template to
do it...  (another issue is that we're running within JBossAS and
Xalan extensions don't seem to work due to classloader Hell)

   -Chris

P.S. thanks for the quick reply...


On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you're using Saxon, you could do
>
> <xsl:value-of select="saxon:serialize(/*)"/>
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
>
> On 10/09/2012 22:33, Chris Wolf wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Before I start my question - I searched all over the Internet,
>> including the XLS-FAQ and the archives of this list and could find
>> nothing.
>>
>> I have a transform with output method="text".   In addition to
>> rendering the results of the transform, I'd like to append a readable
>> string version of the input document XML to the end of the
>> transformation result.
>>
>> I tried declaring a top-level variable like so
>>
>> <xsl:variable name="inputDoc" select="/*"/>
>>
>> Then at the end of my default template:
>>
>> <xsl:value-of select="$inputDoc"/>
>>
>> But this only renders the text of text nodes, not element and attribute
>> names.
>>
>> I then tried:
>>
>> <xsl:value-of select="string($inputDoc)"/>
>>
>> ...but I guess that just make explicit what already occurs implicitly,
>> since I got the same results.
>>
>> One of my web search hits, some guy was taking about a serializer
>> extension, or something like that - surely I don't
>> need to resort to that, do I?
>>
>> Do I need to implement some kind of recursive template that explicity
>> calls name() on elements and attributes?
>>
>> Since my output is type text, I'm guessing the solution would involve
>> @disable-output-escaping="true", unless I decide
>> I want output method="html".
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chris Wolf