[xquery-talk] Sequence from String-Literal

[Michael Kay]

> The cases I have seen is where I want to do a quick-and-dirty 
> parse in XQuery of some textual format so I can get XML to 
> play with.  You can get pretty far with fn:replace, as long 
> as you can then parse the string into XML at the end of it.

That suggests to me a need for something like XSLT's xsl:analyze-string,
which allows you to create a tree structure as the result of regex
processing. Generating lexical XML and then parsing it seems a bit of a
hack.

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