Hi Andy: I am not sure how JAVA handles an XML snippet but if you are passing the snippet as variable you should be able to cast it as a string. If not you could try encapsulating it at CDATA section and the parser will ignore anything in the CDATA section:
<![CDATA[ <a>My XML</a> ]]> Betty <quote who="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: > 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 , "Betty Harvey" wrote: > Try this for your xsl:copy: 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: 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] /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Betty Harvey | Phone: 410-787-9200 FAX: 9830 Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Washington,DC SGML/XML Users Grp URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/ Help Mac fight MLD (http://www.macsteam.org) Mark your calendar for October 28th (http://www.macsteam.org/BullROast.aspx) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
