"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message news:<e0uitNAZEHA.3304@T...>...
> 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.

Thanks very much