Re: Designs for XSLT functions (Was: Re: [xsl] RE: syntax sugar for call-template)

[Francis Norton <francis at redrice dot com>]

Miloslav Nic wrote:
> 
> > I agree that for string manipulation, there's not much call for
> > anything very sophisticated, and you can always call out to a named
> > template if you need to.  However, for node-set manipulation that's
> > not always an option - you can't get a named template to return a node
> > set.
> 
> Actually you can:
> 

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C:\xml>saxon nodeset.xslt nodeset.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>2

C:\xml>msxsl nodeset.xslt nodeset.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Error occurred while executing stylesheet 'nodeset.xslt'.

Code:   0x80004005
Reference to variable or parameter 'xxx' must evaluate to a node list.

C:\xml>
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Well, you can in Saxon 6.2 (which includes 1.1 support, though this
shouldn't apply given the version="1.0") but not in MSXML3 - are you
sure this is kosher?

Francis.

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