RE: Future XSLT expansion.

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

> In my case the variable contains a result set fragment
> and it's not legal to implicitly convert a result set fragment into a
> node-set. I would need this: <xsl:apply-template
> select="node-set($variable)"/>. Allowing this in the core 
> would break the no side effect rule.

No it wouldn't. The spec already allows the tree to be processed as a string
and allowing it to be processed as a node-set is no different in terms of
side-effects.

Mike Kay


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