Re: How to Parse String with Escaped XML Markup?

extract the string  and give it to
https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-parse-xml

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 14:57, Eliot Kimber [email protected] <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I researched this question in this list but I didn't find a recent
> response so I'm asking it again.
>
> My specific requirement is to take the value of an Oxygen deleted content
> processing instruction and parse it back into elements in the context of an
> XSLT 3 transform.
>
> The PI is:
>
> <?oxy_delete author="ekimber" timestamp="20210115T085216-0600"
> content="&lt;body&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul
> id=&quot;ul_c5k_mhh_34b&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;li one&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;li
> two&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;"?>
>
> What I'm failing to work out is how to convert the value of the @content
> pseudo-attribute back into a proper XML string that I can pass to
> parse-xml().
>
> I tried just using replace() to change the various named character
> references to their characters but I ran into a use/mention problem with
> quotes that I was unable to resolve at the end of the day, which made me
> think that perhaps there's a better way or am I just not thinking clearly
> about how to handle this kind of string in the context of an XSLT
> transform?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eliot
>
> --
> Eliot Kimber
> http://contrext.com
>
> 
>
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