Re: [xsl] How to call an XSLT function whose name isn't known till run-time?

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

> Also, why use the verbose <xsl:map-entry> as compared to the XPath way
> of writing a map-literal? I know that this can be useful in
> dynamically creating a map when the number of key-value pairs is
> determined at runtime -- but this still isn't the case in this
> question.
>

Very much a personal choice. Some people try very hard to avoid multi-line
XPath expressions. I think it might be because of the editing or debugging
tools they are using.

XML attribute value normalization unfortunately means that indentation in
XPath expressions doesn't survive XML parsing.

Michael Kay