Re: [xsl] New to XSL - invalid token error

[Francis Norton <francis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I'll be blowed.

Michael Kay wrote:

> Recent drafts of XQuery are closer to real XML syntax. You now write
>
>   return <book authorCount="{ count($authors) }"/>
I'm way out of touch, it's all there on the site. I'm still looking at 
it. Does it mean that an XQuery statement is essentially a well-formed 
mixed-content XML fragment? I bet I'm not the only one who's noticed 
that the sometimes puzzling distinction in XSLT between the root *node* 
and the root *element* means that XSLT would need no formal changes to 
accept (multiple root-element) XML Fragments as input instead of (single 
root-element) XML Documents, if only the underlying parsers would parse 
them.

Time for XML 1.1 to treat XML Documents as simply a special case of  XML 
Fragments, and both to be considered well-formed. One day maybe. Equal 
rights for fragment types?

Francis.



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