Re: How to Parse String with Escaped XML Markup?

The reason this works is that saxon:get-pseudo-attribute() expands entity and character references found in the PI content, so the resulting string contains angle brackets in place of "& lt ; " and "& gt ;".

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 15 Jan 2021, at 15:36, Eliot Kimber [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Yes, I'm using the Saxon extension function to get the value of the @content pseudo-attribute.
> 
> What I didn't realize was that parse-xml and parse-xml-fragment() will handle the string as it comes, so this works:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="rawMarkup" select="saxon:get-pseudo-attribute('content')/>
> <xsl:variable name="deletedContent" as="element()">
>  <deletedContent xmlns="">
>   <xsl:sequence select="parse-xml-fragment($rawMarkup)/>
>  </deletedContent>
> </xsl:variable>
> 
> So it's all good.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> E.
> 
> --
> Eliot Kimber
> http://contrext.com
> 
> 
> On 1/15/21, 9:22 AM, "Martin Honnen [email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>    Am 15.01.2021 um 15:58 schrieb Eliot Kimber [email protected]:
>> 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 think Saxon PE and EE have an extension function to access the pseudo
>    attributes of a processing instruction value.
> 
>    So inside of oXygen with Saxon PE or EE this should be easz.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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