"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message news:<eJdYHmzYEHA.644@t...>...
> ms wrote:
> 
> > I need to retrieve a large portion of the input xml, character-escape 
> > the " and ', and pass the string as an argument to a Javascript
> > function in the xsl.
> > I can't see any way of assigning the xml fragment (retrieved using
> > xsl:copy-of) into an xsl:variable (or sending as an xsl:parameter to a
> > template).
> 
> <xsl:variable name="var" select="the-expression-you-would-use-in-copy-of"/>
> 
> But it's not really clear what you mean. Provide some samples please.


The best i've managed so far is:

 	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:call-template name="copy" >
			<xsl:with-param name="root" select="/root/a" />
		</xsl:call-template>
	</xsl:template>


	<xsl:template name="copy">
		<xsl:param name="root"/>
		<xsl:apply-templates select="$root" />
	</xsl:template>
	
	

	<xsl:template match="*">
		<xsl:copy>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
			<xsl:apply-templates/>
		</xsl:copy>
	</xsl:template>
	
	<xsl:template match = "@*">
		<xsl:variable name="str" select="."/>
		<xsl:attribute name="{name()}" >
			<xsl:value-of select="."/>
		</xsl:attribute>
	</xsl:template>

This outputs the xml of node "a" and its attributes and children as a
string, but I still can't assign this string to a variable for
character replacement.

For example:
		<xsl:variable name="var1">
			<xsl:call-template name="copy" >
				<xsl:with-param name="root" select="/root/a" />
			</xsl:call-template>
		</xsl:variable>
		<xsl:value-of  select="$var1"/>

Outputs "John'sDave's"

=====================================================================


The source xml is:

<root>
	<a att1="dkjf's">
		<b att2="dkf">John's</b>
		<b att2="dkf">Dave's</b>
	</a>

</root>