Best way to create a XalanNode inside an extension function

[Abram-Profeta, Emmanuel]

Hi,   I looked at the extensionFunction sample in Xalan 1.4 and 1.5 and I am trying to come up with a function that builds new elements dynamically.   Background: The examples shown deal with string/number like results (e.g., sqrt, cube, etc). For instance (sorry for the tabs…)   virtual XObjectPtr             execute(                         XPathExecutionContext&                                    executionContext,                         XalanNode*                                                                    context,                         const XObjectArgVectorType&                args,             const LocatorType*                                            locator) const             {   ….                           return executionContext.getXObjectFactory().createNumber(sqrt(args[0]->num()));             }   So far, I’ve been able to do the same thing and use the executionContext.getXObjectFactory().createNodeSet() function to return XalanNode* pointers belonging to XalanDocument objects output by a transform or created from a xerces DOM using the XercesDOMParserLiaison.   However, what I’d like to do is manually create a XalanNode* that would be an XML element with embedded elements within; The difference here is that I am not reusing pointers to locations of existing documents. I’m aware that it may sound like a trivial question but after experimenting with the XalanDOM and the XalanSourceTree classes, I noticed that there’s still a lot of functionality that remains to be implemented. (Hence my questions.)   One trivial way I thought of was to just create a string containing the XML I need and parse it inside the extension function. But I’m sure there’s a smarter and better way to just say “create this XalanNode with this name, append this node set, etc.”.   Thanks in advance for any help,   Emmanuel