Usage in SAXON9

I am wondering if I can directly convert a String into xml Node set and return it. Currently my code gets a node set(doc in java). Java code does what it needs to do and then returns a HTML in a string.

I want to return a Node-set and not a string. Currently I m using :
String S="<tr>"
DocumentBuilderFactory factory= DocumentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
DocumentBuilder builder=factory.newDocumentBuilder();
document html=builder.parse(newInputSource(new StringReader(S)));

then create more childs and keep adding to this string.

then return Document;

Is there another cleaner way.

Thanks

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Dved

Are you asking how to do the same kind of thing, but in XSLT?

There is no way to do this in standard XSLT, but seeing as you are using Saxon then you can use the Saxon extension function, saxon:parse().

http://www.saxonica.com/documentatio...ons/parse.html

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Your question subject "converting string into node-set" sounds as if you are looking for the saxon:parse extension function: http://www.saxonica.com/documentatio...ons/parse.html

I already have a java function(called in xsl) which returns a string. Now I need to do something (in my java function) so that I convert this string into a document may be and return it to XSL. So XSL reads it as a node set and not as a string.

If I use the method that I said before then I have to go and change each line as I need to append a chile everytime. So I was looking for a kind of type cast mechanism which makes this string into a document or any form that XML understands (like nodeset) but a string.

Note: the problem with string is that it contains < and > symbols and these get interpreted by XSL as &lt and &gt. I dont want it that way.