Kevin Burton wrote:
> I am using the XSLT processor that .NET uses. 

.NET has two XSLT processors, System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform and 
System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform.

> I am assuming that it is with 
> the latest version of MSXML. 

MSXML is not part of the .NET framework.

> When I form the XML string and pass it as an 
> argument it seems that the XSLT processor (at least with .NET) 
> "automatically" turns it into an XmlDocument. 

Sorry, but that is certainly not the case. If you pass in a .NET string 
with the AddParam method then the stylesheet sees it as an XPath string.
Or how exactly do you use your XSLT processor and pass in arguments? If 
you are really using .NET then you do that by calling the AddParam 
method of an XsltArgumentList and passing that XsltArgumentList to the 
Transform method.

I am not sure what you are doing exactly, passing in a string for param 
foo and then doing $foo/someXpath should give a runtime error.

I think you need to provide details of the code you use, currently it is 
not clear to me exactly what you are doing.


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