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RE: variable question

2004-11-10 16:40:38
Yes. Basically the old XSLT document() function bundles the operations of
taking a set of URIs, resolving them against base URIs if they are relative,
and deferencing them. For XPath 2.0 and XQuery it was decided to unbundle
these into separate primitives, which leads to simpler functions that can be
composed in a more flexible way.

Michael Kay 

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 10 November 2004 22:42
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] variable question

Hi Bruce,

document() has been around since XSLT 1.0.

doc() is new with XPath 2.0.

As I understand it, XPath 2.0 defines document() in such a 
way that it 
works the same way as the old one, whereas doc() is defined as a more 
primitive function that takes a single string (and only that) 
as argument. 
Since document() takes either a string or a node set coerced 
to a set of 
strings, I'd continue to use it unless I had a reason not to.

In your particular case it might not actually make any difference.

XPath 2.0 doc() is specified at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc

XSLT 2.0 document() is specified at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#function-document.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 05:26 PM 11/10/2004, you wrote:
I don't really understand the difference between doc() and 
document().
In Jeni's response (thanks Jeni) I note she didn't comment 
on that.  So 
what is the difference?



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