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Re: . in for
- From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:55:40 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: [xsl] Re: . in for
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[snipped a very nice and perfectly understandable argumentation for a mapping
operator]
> I can see two drawbacks to using a simple mapping operator rather than
> a for expression, because the context item is used rather than there
> being explicit variable bindings for range variables:
>
> - you cannot iterate over several sequences at the same time
> - you cannot have right operands that use the value of the item from
> the left operand within a predicate
Jeni,
This is the only part of your message, which seems not to be 100% clear.
Could you, please, provide concrete examples (expressions) that would be
illegal/would not work?
Cheers,
Dimitre.
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