Re: extension functions returning temporary trees

   I'm trying to return the string "<root>test</root>" from a .NET extension =
   written in C# to the Altova XML engine running XSLT 2.0.
   What actually gets returned replaces the "<" with "& l t ;" (without the s=
   paces) and similarly for ">".  This, of course, means that XSLT 2.0 can't =
   implicitly convert the returned value to a temporary tree.

   Has anyone else seen this problem and, if so, how have they fixed it?

   Your help is much appreciated, I've been banging my head against the wall =
   over this for the past several days.


most likely the < has not been turned into & l t ; (check with
string-length() the entity reference is simply the way that character is
shown in xml. XSLT does not turn a string such as <root>test</root> into
a tree, that is the function of an xml parser. I don't have altova to
test but most likely you can parse the string uisng .net's xml parser
and pass the resulting DOM node to the xslt engine rather than the
string.

David

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