Subject: Re: [xsl] Context document with exsl:node-set()? From: Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:55:21 +0000 |
On Thu, Nov 01 2007 19:32:24 +0000, Scott.Trenda@xxxxxxxx wrote: > I think I was trying to ask, is the template content of a variable > treated as its own document? It would make sense if it were, > considering XSLT 1.0 [1] says: A result tree fragment represents a fragment of the result tree. A result tree fragment is treated equivalently to a node-set that contains just a single root node. EXSLT [2] says: The exsl:node-set function returns a node-set from a result tree fragment (which is what you get when you use the content of xsl:variable rather than its select attribute to give a variable value). XPath 1.0 [3] says: XPath operates on an XML document as a tree. and [4]: The root node is the root of the tree. > it's possible to create new nodes within it, rather than creating a set RTF nodes are not node-set nodes. You're not creating node-set datatype nodes until you use exsl:node-set() to turn the RTF into a node-set (or you use xsl:copy-of to copy the RTF to the result tree). About all you can do with an RTF as an RTF is use its string value. > of references to nodes in the original document when @select is used. > Then exsl:node-set() essentially acts like document(), correct? I think > I was getting confused because I started out making copies of the nodes > in the template content. The result of exsl:node-set() has the same general structure as a document in that it has one root node, but that root node could have multiple element node children (unlike an XML document). Regards, Tony Graham. ====================================================================== Tony.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.menteithconsulting.com Menteith Consulting Ltd Registered in Ireland - No. 428599 Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Menteith Consulting -- Understanding how markup works ====================================================================== [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Result-Tree-Fragments [2] http://www.exslt.org/exsl/functions/node-set/index.html [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#root-node
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