Re: XSLT 4: map serialization

"Michael Kay [email protected]" <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:10:38 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xsl.general.mulberrytech
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 
> let $makeElement := function($k, $v) {
>   parse-xml('<' || $k '>' || $v '</' || $k '>' )

We really shouldn't be encouraging anyone to construct lexical XML by string concatenation, in any language. We see so many StackOverflow problems caused by people doing it wrong, specifically, forgetting to do the escaping of special characters, or checking that strings used as names are valid names.

Michael Kay
Saxonica
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