RE: [xsl] RE: syntax sugar for call-template

Subject: RE: [xsl] RE: syntax sugar for call-template
From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:59:00 -0000
> From: Clark C. Evans [mailto:cce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > <xsl:template name="foo">
> >    <bar>
> >       <xsl:return select="'bar'" />
> >    </bar>
> > </xsl:template>
>
> I must say that I really do not like the "return" idea.
>

Then how else do you write a function equivalent, say, to distinct() or
intersection() or max()? Named templates can only return trees, you need
something that can return arbitrary node-sets, numbers, strings, or
booleans.

Mike Kay


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