XSLT problem passing raw XML

Question

Hello,
I've a problem passing a piece of raw XML code to an external assembly to do some tasks.
The problem is that if I use an XSLT like this:
<xsl:template name="xml-to-string-called-template">
   <xsl:param name="param1" />
          <xsl:element name="ns0:Root">
              <xsl:variable name="tryThisTemplate">
                  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></xsl:text>
                      <xsl:call-template name="identity" />
                  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></xsl:text>
              </xsl:variable>
<xsl:copy-of select="$tryThisTemplate" />
           </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="identity" match="@*|node()">
   <xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" />
   </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
I have as output the XML with all tags like expected (the TestFunction take a string as input ad return the same string as output), like this:
<ns0:Root xmlns:ns0="http://BizTalk_Server_ProjectDemo.SchemaOut1Node">
- <ns0:Travel xmlns:ns0="http://BizTalk_Server_ProjectDemo.SchemaIN">
  <DateTimeStart>1999-05-31T13:20:00.000-05:00</DateTimeStart>
  <Field>Field_0</Field>
  </ns0:Travel>
 </ns0:Root>
The problem is that if I try to pass the variable to my external assembly, in this way:
<xsl:template name="xml-to-string-called-template">
   <xsl:param name="param1" />
          <xsl:element name="ns0:Root">
              <xsl:variable name="tryThisTemplate">
                  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></xsl:text>
                      <xsl:call-template name="identity" />
                  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></xsl:text>
              </xsl:variable>
              <xsl:variable name="pCC" xmlns:ScriptNS0="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/ScriptNS0"
select="ScriptNS0:TestFunction($tryThisTemplate)" />
                <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></xsl:text>
<xsl:copy-of select="$pCC" />
                <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></xsl:text>
           </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
saving its return value and printing it, I have as output the values of fields contained in $tryThisTemplate variable, and not all the XML like I need:
<ns0:Root xmlns:ns0="http://BizTalk_Server_ProjectDemo.SchemaOut1Node">1999-05-31T13:20:00.000-05:00
Field_0</ns0:Root>
What can I do to pass all the raw XML to my function and not the values of its fields?
I tried to declare the output method as like xml than html or text but nothing changed

Answer 1

First, of all your input xml has invalid namespace declaration, is this like below what mean to say:
<ns0:Root xmlns:ns0="http://BizTalk_Server_ProjectDemo.SchemaOut1Node">
  <ns1:Travel xmlns:ns1="http://BizTalk_Server_ProjectDemo.SchemaIN">
    <DateTimeStart>1999-05-31T13:20:00.000-05:00</DateTimeStart>
    <Field>Field_0</Field>
  </ns1:Travel>
</ns0:Root>
Second, you can achieve what you are trying to map using very simple map like below:
and you can see the xslt is generated like below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" xmlns:var="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/var" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl var s0 userCSharp" version="1.0" xmlns:s0="http://BizTalk_Server_ProjectDemo.SchemaIN" xmlns:ns0="http://BizTalk_Server_ProjectDemo.SchemaOut1Node" xmlns:userCSharp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/userCSharp">  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="xml" version="1.0" />  <xsl:template match="/">    <xsl:apply-templates select="/ns0:Root" />  </xsl:template>  <xsl:template match="/ns0:Root">    <xsl:variable name="var:v1" select="userCSharp:StringConcat(string(s0:Travel/DateTimeStart/text()) , &quot;  &quot; , string(s0:Travel/Field/text()))" />    <ns0:Root>      <xsl:value-of select="$var:v1" />    </ns0:Root>  </xsl:template>  <msxsl:script language="C#" implements-prefix="userCSharp"><![CDATA[public string StringConcat(string param0, string param1, string param2){   return param0 + param1 + param2;}]]></msxsl:script></xsl:stylesheet>
Third, if you are really interested passing your whole using xslt, then probably this artical will be helpful to you
http://connectedpawns.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/how-to-copy-the-entire-node-to-element-of-string-type-in-a-map/
Please mark it as Answer if this answers your question
Thanks.
Mo
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Thank you, yes you're right about the namespaces, but this is only a proof of concept ant I have to adjust it.
What is the functoid you put in the map? And can I pass its output to an external assembly as parameter? (I need to do it and return the output to a certain schema node).
Thank you