Re: [xsl] combining multiple documents

[Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is incorrect. I am, in fact, looking to identify a processing  
transaction (an execution context) and, in particular, the values of  
keys specified in that transaction.

I do appear to have misunderstood something - I understood this list  
was actually looking for constructive criticism of the XSL language  
for future developments. Feedback from users as it were.

With respect,
Steven

On Jan 28, 2008, at 2:13 AM, Michael Kay wrote:

> Actually a key is a mapping from (V, R) pairs to nodes, where V is a  
> value
> and R is a root node.
>
> You're looking for a concept of "the current set of input  
> documents", and
> that concept simply doesn't exist in XSLT. XSLT operates in the open  
> world
> of the web, not in a closed world. You have to define the set of  
> documents
> that you are interested in. That's a feature, not a bug.
>
> It's only context-sensitive in that there is a default for R, and  
> it's only
> counter-intuitive because your intuition was wrong. If the function  
> depended
> on some notion of "the current set of input documents", then it  
> would be far
> more context-sensitive than it is now.
>
> Anyway, this list can offer you constructive help in using the  
> language as
> it is defined. It can't change the language for you.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Ericsson-Zenith [mailto:steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 28 January 2008 09:58
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [xsl] combining multiple documents
> >
> >
> > Actually, they are not. They appear to be global mappings
> > from nodes to values. If they were global mappings from
> > values to nodes then we would have exactly what I want. The
> > problem is that the names in these mappings have what appears
> > to me to be both a counter intuitive and an unnecessary
> > context sensitivity (since a key reference returns a value
> > that does not rely upon the matching criteria but upon an
> > implied context.
> >
> > With respect,
> > Steven
> >
> >
> > On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:28 AM, David Carlisle wrote:
> >
> > > > I really should have said "partial order" here rather than
> > > > "sequentiality" because this entire question has to do with the
> > > > partial order established by both the functional nature of XSL and
> > > > the strict lexical order of XML documents.
> > >
> > >
> > > Neither of those features though have any bearing on the way keys
> > > are defined, which are global mappings from values to nodes.
> > >
> > > David
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