>>>>> "David" == David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

    >> I think a parse() function almost made it into 2.0...

    David> it did.

    David> <xsl:function name="x:parse" as="document-node()">
    David> <xsl:param name="s" as="xs:string"/> <xsl:sequence
    David> select="doc(concat('data:text/xml,'$s))"/> </xsl:function>

Almost.

Your data URI needs the charset parameter. 

And application/xml, not text/xml - the latter is almost never correct,
and certainly not here (the contents of $s is read by an XML parser,
not a human).
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Nit-picker
Preston Lancashire