hey All,

  I have a string variable containing an XML message. I would like to use the contents of this string variable as a pattern to match in a template (I would like to work on this string variable's contents as a nodeset). how would i do that?

Any help in this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Sudhish

You can't do this as part of standard XSLT.

Some XSLT processors provide extension methods which let you do this, such as Saxon's saxon:evaluate() function.
http://www.saxonica.com/documentatio.../evaluate.html

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

You need to parse the string, to turn it from lexical XML into a tree of nodes. There's no standard way of doing it within XSLT. In Saxon you can call the saxon:parse() extension function; in other environments you could write your own extension function (for example in Javascript) to invoke the XML parser.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Regards,
Sudhish