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xt:node-set usage (was Re: Future XSLT expansion.)
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- Subject: xt:node-set usage (was Re: Future XSLT expansion.)
- From: Tom Myers <tom dot myers at postoffice dot worldnet dot att dot net>
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 11:13:02 -0500
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"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@mediaone.net> wrote
>Am I experiencing a side effect of this discussion?
>
>I would like to do this:
>
><xsl:variable name="foo">
> <mytag>
> data
> </mytag>
></xsl:variable>
>
><xsl:apply-templates select="$foo"/>
>
>This gives me a "cannot convert to node-set error" with XT.
>It was my understanding that this was in XSLT to prevent
>feedback from the resultset back into the input of the pattern
>matches.
>
>Instead I use:
...
<xsl:apply-templates select="document('')/mydata"/>
>
>The downside to this is it causes my source XSL stylesheet to
>be parsed twice since XML and XSLT have different white
>space rules.
I'm puzzled. Why are you using that, which I think of as cute
but over-sophisticated, rather than just
<xsl:apply-templates select="xt:node-set($foo)"/>
That works fine...I just tested it with your variable copied
from the email into a stylesheet, and
<xsl:template match="mytag" >
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
to get the "mydata" value out...no problem, except that I
happened to test it in a stylesheet with a top-level
<xsl:template match="/">
which was immediately plunged into infinite regress, because
as you say, we get "feedback from the resultset back into the
input of the pattern matches."(So I had to edit "/" to match
the actual top node of the actual input xml file, before
seeing that indeed, there was no problem.)
Maybe that _does_ have something to do with the philosophy
issue...I think it probably just means I need some more
coffee. But probably I'm misreading your mail somehow. The
feedback issue is interesting. Anybody want to philosophize
on it?
Tom Myers
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