[xquery-talk] Sequence from String-Literal

[Michael Kay]

Do you mean, the string literal contains XML markup, and you want to parse
it to turn it into nodes (an instance of the XDM data model)? 

That operation is called XML parsing... There's no standard way of doing it
from within XQuery. Saxon has an extension function saxon:parse(). 

http://www.saxonica.com/documentation/extensions/functions/parse.html

Some products may support the "data:" URI scheme, where the data is wrapped
into a URI that can then be passed to the doc() function.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/



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> florianwendland at freenet.de
> Sent: 11 May 2007 09:09
> To: TalkXQuery
> Subject: [xquery-talk] Sequence from String-Literal
> 
> Hallo all,
> 
> thanks for the answer before. Now I have an other problem. I 
> want to pass a string lietral <a><b>Hello</b></a> to a xquery 
> variable, and during the process, I want to convert the 
> literal into a sequence, so that for-Expression can iterate over it.
> 
> I tried with
> 
> 	document{ $literal }
> 
> but that doesn't work. (Don't ask, I thought, that I read 
> this somewhere in a xquery book).
> 
> Backgrounf for this approach is passing a string to a eXIst 
> XQueryService. There, it is not possible to pass a whole 
> DOM-Object or something else. SO I want to fill the variable 
> with a string (in xml
> strcuture) and than convert it into a sequence.
> 
> Is that possible?
> Thx
> mfw
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