Re: Tags in the value of an XSLT variable?

[Andrew Chamberlain]

Hi Betty/Derek, Thanks for getting back. Yes, that's certainly helped.  I'm now confident that my variable also contains the tags in addition to the values.  It was by changing the "." for "@* | node()" that did it. So my xslt looks like this: <xsl:variable name="gml"> <xsl:copy-of select="@* | node()"/> </xsl:variable> However, I now believe this variable is still a Node-Tree, and not a String.  I need it to be the latter so I can pass the XML excerpt to the Java method I mentioned earlier (using xalan to do so). Is there a way of casting/translating a node tree into a String? Best regards, Andy Derek Hohls wrote: And that is not a "trick", but standard XSLT; see: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N1930.html#d3389e91 as select="." only selects the value (string) inside the tag/s. On 2008/06/27 at 06:48, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Betty Harvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try this for your xsl:copy: <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" /></xsl:copy> <quote who="Andrew Chamberlain"> Hi All, It's quite possible that this is more XSLT-related than Cocoon itself, but wasn't sure where else to post. I'm using an XSL transformer and need to capture a tree fragment in the value of variable ... including the tags themselves. The reason for this is because I need to pass the XML excerpt (as a string) to a Java class which is specifically written to parse it. I'm trying the following, but this only seems to include the values, and not the tags: <xsl:variable name="gml"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:variable> Can anyone help? Is there a trick for this? Many thanks, Andy -- This message is subject to the CSIR's copyright terms and conditions, e-mail legal notice, and implemented Open Document Format (ODF) standard. The full disclaimer details can be found at http://www.csir.co.za/disclaimer.html. This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks Transtec Computers for their support. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]