Re: [xsl] minor improvements to XSLT 3.0 spec, "section 18.1 The xsl:source-document Instruction"

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 07:39 +0000, Mukul Gandhi
mukulg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all,
> B B B  The XSLT 3.0 spec section mentioned in subject, has the following
> example at the beginning,
> 
> <xsl:source-document streamable="yes" href="book.xml">
> B  <xsl:for-each select="book">
> B B B  <xsl:for-each select="chapter">

[...]

> I think that, it may be better to have above example as follows,
> 
> <xsl:source-document streamable="yes" href="book.xml">
> B  <xsl:for-each select="/book">

Why? The result is the same, since there can be only one top-level book
element. I actually ran it, expecting an error on /book, but as Mike
Kay points out, Saxon is smart enough to avoid the error.


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