Re: [xsl] Xsl stylesheet version =1 with saxon 9.x

["Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 7 Mar 2019, at 16:27, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The effect of having version="1.0" is that the stylesheet runs in "backwards
compatibility mode", meaning that some constructs behave as described in XSLT
1.0 / XPath 1.0 rather than as defined in 2.0/3.0. For example, xsl:value-of
applied to a sequence of several nodes displays the first in 1.0 mode, but
throws an error in 2.0 / 3.0 mode.
>

Correction. xsl:value-of in 2.0 displays all the nodes. I was thinking of the
string() function: in 1.0 this displays the first node, while in 2.0 it throws
an error.

My memory of 1.0 is getting rusty - it's almost 20 years old, after all!

Michael Kay
Saxonica