[xsl] Re: Re: Using XSLT to add markup to a document

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wendell,

> What interests me about David's idea is not the solution to the marking-up
> of strings problem, so much as the recursive "operate on a node set result
> of an operation" tactic -- one that I think we will be seeing lots more of
> since it will be implicitly licensed by XSLT 2.0's elevation of node-set()
> from an extension function (which for whatever reason people are reluctant
> to use) to a mandated feature of the language.

Yes, this is one of the nice features of XSLT 2.0 -- no RTFs any more.

However, David is not converting an RTF to a node-set here. He is converting
a string to a text node, so that he can use xsl:apply-templates on it.

It seems to me that even in XSLT 2.0 one would need to convert a string to a
text node in order to be able to apply templates on it.

Probably Jeni and Mike could explain?

>
> It is the first step on the road to FXSL, isn't it? ;->

:o)

In fact, when adapting FXSL to run with XSLT 2.0, 99% of the work was to get
rid of all occurencies of the xxx:node-set() function.




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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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