Re: [xsl] current-dateTime()

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seems like some people didn't understand what I said.

Is it too complicated to understand that "the results happens not
earlier than the reason for it" ?

It cannot be simpler than this...


If you don't understand this simple logical axiom, then do not use it,
but ignoring it will not make it cease to exist.


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On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Liam Quin <liam@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 05:55:07AM -0700, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
> [...]
> >   <xsl:variable name="$vY" select="f:someFun($vX)" as="someType"/>
> > Then it is true that:
> >    creationTime($vY) > creationTime($vX)
>
> Actually this is far from certain, odd as it may seem.
>
> It depends what the compiler knows about f:fomeFun().  For
> example, if the function does not use its argument, then the
> variables can be created in either order, and quite possibly
> statically, before any other processing.
>
> [...]
>
> > XSLT supports a more specific run-time serialization. Let's have the
> > following tree:
> >
> > <a>
> >  <b>
> >    <c>
> >      <d/>
> >
> [...]
>
> > strtRunTime(tmpl-matchA) < strtRunTime(tmpl-matchB) <
> > strtRunTime(tmpl-matchC) < strtRunTime(tmpl-matchD)
>
> No.  There is no guarantee of that at all.  An XSLT processor
> could start at the template for <d /> and work upwards.  Again,
> I don't know if there any that do (I'd be be interested to learn),
> but you cannot make this sort of assumption.
>
> However, in an implementation that does not memoize the results of
> external functions, you can indeed in practice use some of the
> techniques you describe.
>
> Liam
>
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> Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
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