RE: [xsl] Saxon and HashMap/Hashtable

[William Lam <xeenman at yahoo dot com>]

Are there any other alternative so you can evaluate
the Java and not output it to the result document?

--- Michael Kay <mhkay@iclway.co.uk> wrote:
> > If I need to call an Java function that has no
> return
> > value of interest, would this be better?
> >
> > <xsl:if test="Hashtable:put('key', 'value')" />
> >
> > instead of storing the result in a variable?
> 
> Well, you're running the risk there that an XSLT
> processor will decide that
> it doesn't matter whether the test is true or false,
> it's not going to
> output anything anyway, so why bother evaluating it?
> And if it does evaluate
> it, it will probably fail trying to convert a void
> to a boolean...
> 
> The fact of the matter is, XSLT and side-effects
> don't mix very well.
> 
> Mike Kay
> Software AG
> 
> 
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