> It would've be great if 2.0 had an inbuilt way of
> accepting XML as string in a param...

It sort of does 

select="doc(concat(data:,text/xml,encode-for-uri($string)))"

However the set of http schemes supported by a processor is processor
dependent, so your processor may not support data: (but then it may not
support http: or file: either)

David

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