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Re: Function arguments (was regexps once)
- From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>
- To: XSL List <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 14:31:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Function arguments (was regexps once)
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At 2002-01-14 15:24 +0000, Jeni Tennison wrote:
>On the other
>hand, you could imagine that:
>
> document('foo.xml') == document('foo.xml')
>
>would be false, if each call to the document() function constructed a
>new document from whatever file you point to.
But isn't this a misleading statement? Section 12.1 states:
Thus, the following expression will always be true:
generate-id(document("foo.xml"))=generate-id(document("foo.xml"))
Therefore, when passing the same argument to the document() function, the
same node is returned, therefore the values of the root notes will always
calculate out to be the same.
You mention "constructing a new document", yet given 12.1 I could image an
XSLT processor deciding not to go looking for anything if it has already
built a node tree based on an already-received URL.
................... Ken
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