Re: [xsl] Does the count() function require access to the whole subtree?

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

> It's traversing the subtree rooted at $n that's not an inspection
> operation; this requires access to the nodes under $n, so it would be
> an absorption operation. So from context $n, count($n/some/path) is
> not going to be streamable unless we allow it to "absorb" $n in doing
> so -- not because of the count(), but because of the traversal.

My reading of it so far suggests that count($n/some/path) would be
"striding" and therefore streamable.

It would only be "absorbing" if you materialised the contents of <path>.



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