MarkLogic: Converting an XML document into an XML string using XQuery

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.

You might want to think a little about why you are doing this. Normally you work with XML nodes as nodes, not strings. There are exceptions, but they aren't common. — mblakele

David Ennis David Ennis · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-13T12:46:15

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

MarkLogic: Converting an XML document into an XML string using XQuery

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