Re: Future XSLT expansion.

[Paul Tchistopolskii <paul@xxxxxxx>]

> a point worth mentioning before you rewrite your XSLT library :-)
> 
> <xsl:variable name="whatever" select="document('data.xml')" />
> 
> allows $whatever to be used as a Node-Set

Sounds amazing.

Because there is no typecast in the core, but because there is 
one special ( we know the secret ) hack which has a built-in 
typecast ( it is document() hack ) - if you want some variable to be 
converted to node-set - just place that variable into separate file.

Comparing to this, perl is not a monster, of course. Perl is not 
saying that you should place your variables into separate files.

Rgds.Paul.




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