MarkLogic：使用XQuery将XML文档转换为XML字符串

Question

I am using something like

let $x := 
 "<root>
 <parent1>value1</parent1>
 <parent2>value2</parent2>
 </root>"
...

and converting the XML document to string. I wanted to pass an xml output from a function to another function as a string and not by hard coding it as I'm doing it right now.

I tried using fn:string , but that doesn't pick up the xml tags as string.

Answer 1

I think you simply want the opposite of xdmp:unquote - which is called xdmp:quote

xquery version "1.0-ml";    
let $x := xdmp:quote(<root>
         <parent1>value1</parent1>
         <parent2>value2</parent2>
         </root>)

return $x