You could write a URIResolver that intercepts the request for
myXmlString.xml and returns a StreamSource that wraps a StringReader that
wraps the relevant string.

Or you could parse the document in your calling application (use
Configuration.buildDocument()) and pass the resulting document node to the
transformation as a parameter.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Smith [mailto:debrief@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 16 September 2007 16:10
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  passing xml strings to xslt using saxon in java
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I have a xslt which needs to use 2 xml files, the first one 
> is not actually a file but an xml formatted string and the 
> second one is an xml file.
> 
> So I want:
> 
> xmlString + rules.xml + XSL.xslt = Result.xml
> 
> I have tested the scenario with the xsl file referencing the 
> xml files as:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="myrules" select="document('myrules.xml')"/>
> <xsl:variable name="xmlstring" select="document('myXmlString.xml')"/>
> 
> and then created a resulting xml file. However instead of 
> referencing a file I want to dynamically pass an xmlString to 
> it. I am using
> Java+Saxon, is there a way around this? or any alternative methods to
> address this problem?
> 
> 
> Many thanks,
> J