Re: lists as parameters

["Dan Machak" <machak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 6, 12:18pm, Jon Smirl wrote:
> ...
> One idea I had is writing an extension function that would take a comma
> separated list and return it as a node list for use in a for-each, but it
> doesn't look like I can return a node-list from an extension function.

I tried the same thing. Another approach I've considered is to handle it during
the XML parsing stage.  I think it might be possible to provide a method to the
XML parser that will handle the list and return it as a set of elements. This
would involve customizing the SAX parser being used (by extending the
DocumentHandler being used?). I haven't had any experience with this yet.

However, I would like to see direct support for this conversion.
Would there be a problem with providing a function

  node-set parse(string)

in XSLT? This would take an XML-encoded string and return a node-set. This
would allow extension functions to process arbitrary text and return a set of
nodes encoded as a string.

Dan

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