Re: [xsl] Are namespace nodes required in XSLT 2.0?

["Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > How can you tell if an XSLT implementation implements Namespace nodes 
> (in
> > the XDM sense), if it does not support the namespace axis?
>
> Like this, for example:
>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>   <xsl:template name="main">
>     <xsl:variable name="x" as="item()*">
>       <xsl:namespace name="a" select="'data:,a'"/>
>       <xsl:namespace name="b" select="'data:,b'"/>
>       <x/>
>       <xsl:attribute name="c" select="'c'"/>
>     </xsl:variable>
>     <xsl:value-of select="count($x)"/>
>   </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> This should produce the result 4, and it's hard to see how it can do so
> unless the fist two items in $x are namespace nodes.

A good example!

But I contest your assertion that it should produce the answer 4.
Either 2 or 4 look acceptable answers to me.

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