Hi Joe,
one solution is to use "text" as serialization method:
serialize("<a/>", { 'method': 'text'})
As an alternative, you can specify in the query prolog (the beginning)
of your query that all results are to be output as text:
declare option output:method "text";
Hope this helps,
Christian
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On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:59 AM, Joe Templeman <j...@inkling.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to output unescaped XML to a string for debugging purposes?
> In unittests we would like to output the XML returned when a test fails,
> here is my example:
>
> declare %unit:test function elementinfo-test:test-element-info()
> {
> let $cases :=
> <cases>
> <case>
> <comment>Failed input</comment>
> <input>input</input>
> <output>
> <result> output </result>
> </output>
> </case>
> </cases>
> for $case in $cases/case
> let $result := {some function which returns XML}
> let $u := unit:assert(deep-equal($case/output, result),
> $case/comment/text()
> || " Input: " || $case/input/text()
> || " Expected: " || fn:serialize($case/output)
> || " Got: " || fn:serialize($result))
> return $u
> };
>
> But when a test fails, I get escaped XML as the output. Is there any way to
> get this as actual XML?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
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