Re: Pedagogy of Objects

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> There a difference between a "result tree fragment" and a "node
> set". But isn't saving a selected & sorted list of nodes saving a node
> set?

No, it isn't according to the standard

In order to sort the list you need something like

<xsl:variable name="x">
  <xsl:for-each select="zzzz">
    <xsl:sort select="@qqqq"/>
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>

but any use of xsl:variable with non empty content produces a result tree
fragment so although this is basically the same as a node set
containing one node with child zzzz nodes in sorted order,
you can not access those nodes by any standard means.

msxsl peview currently doesn't distinguish so there you can go
select="$x/zzzz[3]" to get the third zzzz in sorted order, 
xt and saxon are more conformant and they supply an extension
function that converts the rtf back to a node set
select="xt:node-set($x)/zzzz[3]

David


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