Subject: Re: how to "save" a context?
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:55:38 -0700 (MST)
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S Woodside wrote:
> Fortunately, I only want to serialize an XPath expression, not the XML
> subtree. I think Dimitre's code does that.
Yep. That'll work.
> > Deserializing an XML string back into a node-set will definitely
> > require an
> > extension function, because you need to run it through a real XML
> > parser and
> > construct whatever DOM-like structure the vendor's implementation
> > requires.
>
> But if it's just an XPath expression ...?
Check your XSLT processor's docs for an extension function like
EXSLT's dyn:evaluate() [1], saxon:evaluate() [2], etc.
[1] http://exslt.org/dyn/functions/evaluate/index.html
[2] http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.2/extensions.html#evaluate
Mike
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