evanlenz

declare variable $doc := document {
  <doc>
    <items>
      <meta id="firstGroup"/>
      <item>1</item>
      <item>2</item>
    </items>
    <items>
      <meta id="secondGroup"/>
      <item>3</item>

evanlenz

xdmp:xslt-eval(
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/> 
  </xsl:template>
 
</xsl:stylesheet>,
document{<my-doc/>})

evanlenz

declare variable $doc := document {
  <groups>
    <group>
      <item>first item</item>
      <item>second item</item>
    </group>
    <group>
      <item>third item</item>
      <item>fourth item</item>
    </group>

evanlenz

root(.) treat as document-node()

evanlenz

declare variable $doc := document {
  <groups>
    <group>
      <item>first item</item>
      <item>second item</item>
    </group>
    <group>
      <item>third item</item>
      <item>fourth item</item>

evanlenz

declare variable $doc := document {
  <people>
    <group>
      <person>Peter</person>
      <person>Paul</person>
      <person>Mary</person>
    </group>
    <group>
      <person>June</person>
      <person>Ward</person>

evanlenz

root(.) treat as document-node()

evanlenz

declare variable $doc := document {
  <people id="all">
    <group id="group1">
      <person id="peter">Peter</person>
      <person id="paul">Paul</person>
      <person id="mary">Mary</person>
    </group>
    <group id="group2">
      <person id="june">June</person>
      <person id="ward">Ward</person>

evanlenz

<doc>
  <group type="widget">
    <item type="sprocket">...</item>
    ...
  </group>
  <group type="employee">
    <item type="executive">...</item>
    ...
  </group>
  <group type="place">

evanlenz

//group[@type eq 'widget']