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RE: Possible to pass 'empty sequence' to function?

2005-03-31 04:19:44
<xsl:variable name="y" as="string?">hello</xsl:variable>

$x is (a sequence of one) string with value "hello"


Is this really the case?  Does it really mean that the 
processor doesn't
construct the temporary tree (and then atomise it?) - if so then it's
really useful.

The semantics are that the processor creates a text node and then atomizes
it to a string.

What happens internally is of course up to the optimizer.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com



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