Question

I have a java code snippet:

public static String echo(String a) {
    System.out.println("HERE I AM:"+a+":");
    return "<xxx>" + a + "</xxx>";
}

called by the below xsl snippet:

<GOGO>
     <xsl:variable name="test">
        <xsl:copy-of select="responseStatus"/>
     </xsl:variable>
     <xsl:copy-of select="javamap:echo($test)"/>
</GOGO>

For some reason if xml is passed to the java method, all the element tags are dropped. on the output side if i try to return xml tags, the < and > would be converted to & lt; and & gt;

What is wrong with my snippet and how can it be fixed so it outputs XML?

EDIT (after 1st response)
Let me elaborate on the problem:

My system out output is below:
HERE I AM:
val1
val2
:

Ideally I would like my system out to be:

HERE I AM:<foo>val1</foo><bar>val2</bar>:

as you can see, the xml tags are being dropped for some reason.

here is the solution I came up with:

public static String echo(Node a) throws Exception {

    StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
    Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
    transformer.transform(new DOMSource(a), new StreamResult(writer));
    String xml = writer.toString();
    return xml;
}

Answer 1

Have you tried this ?

<xsl:value-of select="responseStatus" disable-output-escaping="no" />