Re: [xsl] constructing arrays in XSLT with templates

["Alan Painter alan.painter@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that this case is so simple that you don't need to use
xsl:apply-templates at all and can either in-line all of the xpath
expressions or can convert the templates to functions.  I do like breaking
things up into templates so was hoping that I was just missing something
and that there was a nice way of achieving it.

I hadn't thought about the construction "books/book!map { ... }" and that
is something to consider.  I appreciate your pointing it out.

I'm looking forward to XSLT 4.

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 8:54 PM Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2021-06-18 at 18:41 +0000, Alan Painter alan.painter@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Is there a more elegant way of doing this?
>
> I don't think so; you could construct maps with integer keys and then
> convert them, but i don't think that's remotely elegant.
>
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