Re: [basex-talk] Serializing unescaped xml to string

Hi Joe,

<testcase name="test-element-info" time="PT0.011S"> <failure message="Failed input Input: input Expected: output Got: {removed}" type="UNIT0001"/> </testcase>

What I would like is ".. Expected: <result>output</result> ..." since what is being returned is XML.

This is syntactically not possible, because "<" cannot occur in attribute values. The following XML is not well-formed:

<x a="<"/>

However, it’s possible to output the value of an attribute as string, and then skip the entity encoding:

declare option output:method "text"; let $expected := serialize(<a/>) let $xml := <failure message="Expected: { $expected }"/> return $xml/@message/string()

Hope this helps, Christian