RE: [xsl] Re: Re: An issue with XPath 2.0 sequences (Was Re: RE: Muenchian method, and keys 'n stuff)

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> As things stand they will usually not be aligned, the
> sequence resulting
> from running "for" over an input sequence is the flattened
> concatenation
> of the sequences resulting from applying the body to each item of the
> original sequence, so you have no indication of which result item
> resulted from which input. If you need this (and I would have thought
> that you normally would) then you have to ensure that the body of the
> for constructs an element node around each result so that you get a
> predicatble sequence back. But then you have a  sequence of
> nodes rather
> than a sequence of whatever type you originally wanted....
>
> I think that this is just going to lead to massive user confusion.
>
I'm puzzled why you should say that, because I've never seen anyone complain
that when you do book/chapter/para you get back a "flat" list of <para>
elements rather than a sequence of sequences of sequences.

Mike Kay


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