if you don't use as then an xsl:variable with content and no
select attribute produces a temporary tree, what we used to
lovingly call a result tree fragment.
<xsl:variable name="x">hello</xsl:variable>
$x is (a sequence of one) document node that has a single
text node child that has string value "hello"
<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.
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