Re: [xsl] Result tree fragment to string?

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

> A result tree fragment is not a string but it is also not a node set.

True, but I think that's just a technicality... It's an artificial
restriction in XSLT 1.0 that was well intentioned but the decision was
quickly proved wrong.  It could be considered the biggest mistake in
1.0, especially because it was so easy to remove the restriction.

That's how I've understood it, hopefully someone can say whether that
really was the case (and maybe why the restriction is there?)


> then for instance Saxon 6.5 will complain "Error at xsl:apply-templates on
> line 13 [...]. Cannot process a result tree fragment as a node-set under
> XSLT 1.0".

I think that's a "feature" of 6.5... I'm pretty sure earlier versions
never complained.




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