RE: [xsl] can a variable hold a node set?

Subject: RE: [xsl] can a variable hold a node set?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 14:51:35 +0100
> >But since there usually over 10 strings that have to be 
> translated on a 
> >single page, I think it's not efficient to call document('') 
> 10 times.
> 
> False ... the processor is obliged to cache the document tree 
> created by the document() function.

Not quite true. The actual requirement is that when you call document('')
twice, the same node is returned each time. Caching the document tree is the
most obvious way of meeting that requirement, but one can imagine other
ways.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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