Re: Feature Request - Node Set Processing (long)

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It would seem more natural to me to provide this sort of functionality
by extending the pattern language to include more set operations and
more operations on siblings (as in XQL).  Could this be used to solve
the problems you are trying to solve with your suggested feature?

"G. Ken Holman" wrote:
> 
> I've come to need a new feature in XSL and though I'm willing to concede it
> may appear complex, I would find such a feature incredibly useful, and I
> hope the committee would consider its inclusion in a future WD.
> 
> In my XSL work, I have found it useful to consider sets of nodes created by
> a select statement, and operations on that set using as a focus, the
> current node in the source tree.



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