RE: [xsl] variable question

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes. Basically the old XSLT document() function bundles the operations of
taking a set of URIs, resolving them against base URIs if they are relative,
and deferencing them. For XPath 2.0 and XQuery it was decided to unbundle
these into separate primitives, which leads to simpler functions that can be
composed in a more flexible way.

Michael Kay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 10 November 2004 22:42
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] variable question
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> document() has been around since XSLT 1.0.
> 
> doc() is new with XPath 2.0.
> 
> As I understand it, XPath 2.0 defines document() in such a 
> way that it 
> works the same way as the old one, whereas doc() is defined as a more 
> primitive function that takes a single string (and only that) 
> as argument. 
> Since document() takes either a string or a node set coerced 
> to a set of 
> strings, I'd continue to use it unless I had a reason not to.
> 
> In your particular case it might not actually make any difference.
> 
> XPath 2.0 doc() is specified at 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc
> 
> XSLT 2.0 document() is specified at 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#function-document.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> At 05:26 PM 11/10/2004, you wrote:
> >I don't really understand the difference between doc() and 
> document().
> >In Jeni's response (thanks Jeni) I note she didn't comment 
> on that.  So 
> >what is the difference?
> 
> 
> 
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