RE: How to use Multi-value Variables?

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

> What's the reasoning behind this restriction?
The reasoning isn't stated in the spec and I wasn't a party to the
discussions.

> Can you give a reference to the appropriate part of the spec?
XSLT section 11.1, penultimate sentence of first para
> 
> I would've thought it's fairly intuitive to use '/' with a 
> result-tree-fragment.
Intuition is no substitute for reading the spec.

But yes: there is now a fair consensus that the restrictions associated with
result-tree-fragments in XSLT 1.0 are unnecessary, which is why several
products (saxon, xt, msxml3) allow them to be converted to node-sets either
explicitly or implicitly.

Mike Kay


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