Hi,
I must be missing the obvious, but is there a way to serialize element() or node() into xs:string with the XML getting entity escaped in BaseX?
Something like:
let $xml as element() := <xml>Hello World</xml> return serialize($xml, map{"method":"entity-escaped-string"}
would result in
<xml>Hello World</xml>
On Sun, 2019-03-24 at 04:22 +0100, Andreas Mixich wrote:
let $xml as element() := <xml>Hello World</xml> return serialize($xml, map{"method":"entity-escaped-string"}
would result in
<xml>Hello World</xml>
One way,
declare function local:escapexml($input as item()*) as xs:string? { <wrapper>{fn:serialize($input)}</wrapper>/text() };
declare option output:method "xml";
local:escapexml( <boy> <name>Simon</name> <age>24 years</age> <socks>blue</socks> </boy> )
Note that if you don’t have the XML output method, strings are output without escaping, so you can’t see that it has worked.
Liam
Am 24.03.2019 um 06:47 schrieb Liam R. E. Quin:
Note that if you don’t have the XML output method, strings are output without escaping, so you can’t see that it has worked.
Interesting, indeed. I wonder whether it wouldn't make sense, to have BaseX provide escape()/unescape() shortcut functions, maybe in the conversion module.
For now, I found a way to circumvent the global setting by adding an addition fn:serialize#1 function call:
declare function local:escapexml($input as item()*) as xs:string? { serialize(<wrapper>{fn:serialize($input)}</wrapper>/text(),map{"method":"xml"}) };
Thanks for helping out!
basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
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