Re: [xsl] Can an XSLT 3.0 stylesheet access the complete sequence of values passed in as the initial match selection?

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

You can only process the items individually; which I'm afraid makes the
feature rather useless.

Perhaps an initial-match-selection() function might rescue it; but as Dimitre
says, it's just as easy to set a global parameter.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 12 Jan 2020, at 18:15, Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 3:32 AM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
<mailto:martin.honnen@xxxxxx> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> In https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#dt-initial-match-selection
<https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#dt-initial-match-selection>, the XSLT 3 spec
outlines:
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>  A stylesheet may be evaluated by supplying a value to be processed,
together with an initial mode
<https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#dt-initial-mode>. The value (which can be any
sequence of items) is referred to as the initial match selection.
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> and
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> specifically, each item in the input sequence is processed by selecting and
evaluating the best matching template rule
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> Does a stylesheet have any way of accessing the whole sequence? Or is it
only able to process each item in the sequence with a matching template?
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> For instance, if the initial match selection is a sequence of array items,
is there any way to merge those arrays? The function array:join
https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-array-join
<https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-array-join> can join a sequence
of arrays, but is there any way in that case of the initial match selection
being a sequence of arrays to apply it to that initial match selection?
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> I think that the Specification doesn't answer this question.
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> But the same can be achieved if you pass the desired sequence as a global
parameter.
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> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev
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