Re: Future XSLT expansion.

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

Please stop the pointless comparisons to perl, and stop quoting each
message in full.

You said
> Sounds amazing.

followed by yet another diatribe against the document function.



> Because there is no typecast in the core, but because there is 
> one special ( we know the secret ) hack which has a built-in 
> typecast ( it is document() hack ) - if you want some variable to be 
> converted to node-set - just place that variable into separate file.

I can't imagine what features the above is supposed to be describing.
whether the relative url in document points to the same or different
file has no effect on the result.

If you object to document() you should presumably object to the fact
that the top level input file is also provided to the stylesheet as a
node set? The semantics appear to be identical.

David


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