It's probably simplest to replace [] by <> (e.g. using translate()) to
create lexical XML, and then parse the resulting string into a node tree by
using an extension such as saxon:parse().

Regards,

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Muir [mailto:alex.g.muir@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 December 2009 17:29
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Dynamically Converting text within an element 
> to xml nodes within the output document
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Given input such as the following within the "text" element 
> in a larger xml document currently being processed by an XSL file:
> 
> <text>
> [ZZ] [XX] [YY] X [/YY] [YY] Y [/YY] [/XX] [/ZZ] </text>
> 
> Is it possible to dynamically replace the [ ]  with < > to 
> output the text as xml nodes in the output document?
> <text>
> <ZZ><XX><YY>X</YY><YY>Y</YY></XX></ZZ>
> </text>
> 
> What is making this difficult for me is that the text input 
> could come in different structures with other psuedo tags for 
> example a  [[BB]] or some other that may not be expected and 
> so ideally it would be nice to convert the [[ to < and the ]] 
> to > with a find and replace however getting the XSLT script 
> to recognize this converted string as XML nodes I can't seem 
> to find a way to do.
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> --
> 
> Alex
> https://sites.google.com/a/utg.edu.gm/alex