David Carlisle wrote:
It is not specified that way but in practice most (all?) implementations
do that.
In Microsoft .NET it's different. Instead XSLT engine operates on source tree
via XPathNavigator interface. So if source XML is provided in
XPathNavigator-compatible form (e.g. XmlDocument (DOM) or XPathDocument), it's
used directly, otherwise XPathDocument is built and used internally.
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Oleg Tkachenko
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Multiconn Technologies, Israel
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