Re: [xsl] Function arguments (was regexps once)

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2002-01-14 15:24 +0000, Jeni Tennison wrote:
> On the other
> hand, you could imagine that:
>
>   document('foo.xml') == document('foo.xml')
>
> would be false, if each call to the document() function constructed a
> new document from whatever file you point to.

But isn't this a misleading statement?  Section 12.1 states:

  Thus, the following expression will always be true:

  generate-id(document("foo.xml"))=generate-id(document("foo.xml"))

Therefore, when passing the same argument to the document() function, the 
same node is returned, therefore the values of the root notes will always 
calculate out to be the same.

You mention "constructing a new document", yet given 12.1 I could image an 
XSLT processor deciding not to go looking for anything if it has already 
built a node tree based on an already-received URL.

................... Ken


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