Dave, What I need is to have in my hand (or code) a string that contains a sub-tree of the document (as XML). Of course I could just parse the document using Xerces and go to the node I need and serialize this sub-tree to text. But I want to do this using Xalan because there are other XPath features I need.
I think that what you are suggesting is selecting all sub-tree nodes with /A/B//* and then go over the returned NodeRefList and create the XML text according to the node type (is there a ready made function API for this common procedure??). So I'm beginning to understand that xpath can only be used for selecting a collection of nodes from a document. The result of selected nodes doesn't refer to their original hierarchy in the DOM document tree. Am I right here? -----Original Message----- From: David Bertoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:10 AM To: xalan-c-users@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: Extracting a sub-tree as text using xpath Ori Doolman wrote: > Someone, please? > I think what you mean is that you want the results as markup, and not as text, in the sense of text nodes in the data model. Take a look at the SerializeNodeSet sample for more information. Dave
