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Parse an XML fragment stored in a string into nodes in XSLT with SAXON for Java

In my XSLT, I have a variable which contains a string. This string contains a fragment of XML. This is coming in programmatically, but its the equivalent of this:

<xsl:variable name="xmlfrag" select="'<foo>this <bar>is</bar> it</foo>'"/>

Is there a way to parse this XML and add it to the output? We're using SAXON for Java.

Solution

  • Use the saxon:parse() extension function.

    UPDATE: Since XPath/XSLT 3.0 one can use the standard XPath 3.0 functions parse-xml and parse-xml-fragment.