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Re: Re: EXSL's dyn:evaluate() and XALAN vs. xsl:use-attribute-sets

2003-08-23 13:48:32
BUT

This raises one question for me:

What has dyn:evaluate been intended for when it can only be used where
XPath
expressions are allowed.
I think you cannot achieve more with it than with a ordinary Xpath
expression.


Let $path has as its value the string "/A/B/C

then

    dyn:evaluate($path)

will return the same node-set as the one, which will be selected when
evaluating the XPath expression:
   /A/B/C

However, evaluating $path will simply return *the string* "/A/B/C" -- not
any node-set at all.


dyn:evaluate can be used for the evaluation of XPath expressions, which are
not known statically at compile time but are generated dynamically at
run-time. XPath (1.0 and 2.0) does not allow such evaluation of dynamically
generated XPath expressions.



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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL







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