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Subject: Re: [xsl] Is xsl:for-each "syntactic sugar"?
From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 08:50:54 -0700
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Not "many", all uses of for-each can be equivalently handled
>> by apply-templates.
>>
>
> Only if the select expression selects nodes (rather than atomic values).
But
> XSLT 2.1 will remove this remaining difference.


Wow...  This is great!

>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
>
>



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