Re: [xsl] rephrased: passing parameters to generic templates

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At 04:44 AM 4/13/2006, David wrote:
> > So when text nodes or values of attribute nodes
> > are constructed (in 2.0), the string-conversion
> > rules are not followed, but instead all values
> > are spliced together (with space delimiters, it
> > appears). This is something to watch out for,
> > being notably different from 1.0 and potentially
> > the source of silent bugs when migrating.
>
> Although this behaviour of AVT is different in 2.0 what is the same as
> 1.0 is that {} is essentially a syntactic trick to allow you to use
> <xsl:value-of in the value of an XML atribute. In 2.0 mode xsl:value-of
> similarly now gives you the value of all items not just silently
> discarding all but the first.

Understood.

Accordingly, a difference between 2.0 and 1.0 is that the statement

<xsl:value-of select="$nodes"/>

and

<xsl:value-of select="string($nodes)"/>

are effectively the same thing in 1.0, but not in 2.0. In 2.0 they'll 
give you the same thing only if $nodes happens to have a single node 
in the sequence, or none; otherwise you'll get a concatenated value 
in the first case and an error in the second.

Cheers,
Wendell



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