Need a way to backport serialize() to xquery1.0

Question

I'd like to put an xml node as CDATA in the output document and I have to use xquery1.0

How can I backport serialize() ?

I have Saxon-HE-9.5.1-8.jar as XQuery processor provided by wso2-mi

Answer 1

I don't know details about Saxon 9.5 but it is not an old, pure XQuery 1.0 processor but somewhere between the two versions; so perhaps trying

xquery version "3.0";
declare namespace output = "http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization";

declare option output:method 'xml';
declare option output:cdata-section-elements 'foo';

works.