Subject: [xsl] Re: maintaining pointer to original doc From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:54:07 -0700 (PDT) |
--- Bruce Gagnon <bgagnon at lucent dot com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm attempting to create an xml sub-tree from an xml doc using > copy-of. > > I'm running a transform and I get the subtree but if I make changes > on > this subtree doc it has no impact on the original doc. I assume that > it's > because I'm using copy-of. Is there another way of getting a subtree > without > loosing access to the original doc thru the subtree doc? > > Thanks, > Bruce Bruce, XSLT is a functional language and among other things this means that there's no "update in place" in this language. Whenever changes of "something" are made, they are made on copies of the original "something". ===== Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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