Re: [xsl] In XSLT 3.0, should the "document" function be available in xsl:evaluate?

["Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you also tried the XPath function doc() ?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Both the latest internal draft of the XSLT 3.0 spec in
> https://www.w3.org/XML/Group/qtspecs/specifications/xslt-30/html/#dynamic-xpath
> as well as the official https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#element-evaluate say
> about the function signatures in the context of dynamic XPath evaluation
> using xsl:evaluate: "Note that this set deliberately excludes XSLT-defined
> functions in the standard function namespace".
>
> Based on that I would expect the XSLT "document" function not to be
> available in dynamic XPath evaluation using xsl:evaluate. So I wrote a test
> case doing
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="3.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>         xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
> xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions";
>         xmlns:math="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/math";
>         xmlns:array="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/array";
>         xmlns:map="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map";
>         exclude-result-prefixes="array fn map math xs">
>
>         <xsl:output method="xml"/>
>
>         <xsl:template name="main" match="/">
>                 <xsl:sequence
>                         select="
>                         let $f := function-lookup(xs:QName('fn:document'),
> 1)
>                         return
>                         if (exists($f)) then
>                         $f('')
>                         else
>                         'not found'"/>
>                 <xsl:variable name="path" as="xs:string">
>                         let $f := function-lookup(xs:QName('fn:document'),
> 1)
>                         return
>                         if (exists($f)) then
>                         $f('')
>                         else
>                         'not found'</xsl:variable>
>                 <xsl:evaluate xpath="$path"/>
>         </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> and expected that to return the stylesheet code for the xsl:sequence and
> 'not found' for the xsl:evaluate.
>
> However, only Exselt gives me that result, both Saxon 9.7 EE as well as
> Altova XMLSpy return the stylesheet code twice which seems to indicate they
> make the 'document' function available to xsl:evaluate. Isn't that a bug? Or
> does the spec need to allow it if an implementer wants to go beyond pure
> XPath support?
> 



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