Re: [xsl] Trying to understand root-less or document-node-less nodes

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Welch wrote:
> What you're describing is the same as typing the variable as="element()" eg:
>
> <xsl:variable name="root" as="element()+">
>   <test1 />
>   <test2 />
> </xsl:variable>
>
> By adding as="element()+" the variable goes from a root with two child
> elements that are siblings (eg to access <test1/> use $root/test1) to
> a sequence of elements with no root and that aren't siblings (to
> access <test1/> use $root[1])

Hi David, thanks for your response. Surely that adds to clarity (and 
iirc, Michael Kay often tried to emphasize the use of the 'as' clause to 
prevent the document node from being created). But root() never seems to 
fail: in your example, that means that the result is a sequence of two 
elements with each having a root equal to self::node()? And both, I 
guess, not being siblings from one another?

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma