RE: [xsl] Evaluating a node-set with select (MSXSL vs. Saxon)

[sara dot mitchell at ps dot ge dot com]

I may be wrong, but I remember Mike starting to implement XSLT 1.1 
when it was a working draft (which removed the need to cast a 
result tree fragment back to a node set). He had it working and 
then 1.1 was put on hold for 2.0. So Saxon has been following 1.1 
rules for a while. 

But there was a nodeSet function in Saxon or if you're using 6.5.1
you can use the EXSLT node-set function so that you are still 
in compliance. 

Sara

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 2:59 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Evaluating a node-set with select (MSXSL vs. Saxon)
> 
> 
> Stan,
> 
> It looks like MSXML is doing the right thing here, and Saxon 
> is silently 
> turning your Result Tree Fragment into a node set for you, 
> which (in XSLT 
> 1.0) it should not.
> 
> The irony here is that MSXML used to do this, but when this 
> was discovered 
> we all howled "conformance", and they obligingly rolled it back to be 
> strictly to the spec. Whereas Saxon, a very conformant processor, now 
> allows it (by your account).
> 
> Just about everyone agrees it's such a powerful feature that 
> it will be 
> included in XSLT 2.0. But for *strict* XSLT 1.0 you should use a 
> (proprietary) nodeset() extension (I dunno what MS calls 
> theirs but they 
> have one).
> 
> No doubt Mike K. will shed some light on this. (But I like to 
> post to the 
> list only after all the smart Brits have gone to bed ... or 
> should have.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> At 04:27 PM 4/18/2002, you wrote:
> >I do indeed get this using the Saxon (6.5.1), but MSXSL 
> (4.0) tells me that
> >the $columns variable must evaluate to a node-set and fails 
> to compile the
> >stylesheet. Can anyone tell me which XSLT engine is doing 
> the right thing
> >here? I'm using the MSXSL command line utility against 
> version 4.0 of MSXML.
> 
> 
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