ms wrote:

> I need, within the xsl, to send a fragment of the above xml as an
> argument to a Javascript funtion:
> 
> func('<a att1="dkjf"><b att2="dkf">John's</b><b
> att2="dkf">Dave's</b></a>');
> 
> The xml string first needs to have the " and ' output escaped.  This
> will need to be done using xsl so that I have the following instead:
> 
> func('<a att1=\"dkjf\"><b att2=\"dkf\">John\'s</b><b
> att2=\"dkf\">Dave\'s</b></a>');
> 
> The problem I have is how to retrieve the full xml (elements included)
> from the source xml.

I see. The problem is that you need to serialize XML fragment to string. 
There is no such function in XSLT so you can either have extension 
function or implement serializing via templates:

   <xsl:template match="*" mode="serialize">
     <xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;', name())"/>
     <xsl:for-each select="@*">
       <xsl:value-of select="concat(' ', name(), '=\&quot;', ., 
'\&quot;')"/>
     </xsl:for-each>
     <xsl:text>></xsl:text>
     <xsl:apply-templates mode="serialize"/>
     <xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;/', name(), '>')"/>
   </xsl:template>
   <xsl:template match="text()" mode="serialize">
     <!-- Implement replace in text here -->
     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
   </xsl:template>

Alternatively consider using XML islands to avoid this stuff.

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