Ah, now I remember to have read some time ago about
"extension functions are allowed to have side-effects".
The references I found useful
2002-05-18 http://lists.fourthought.com/pipermail/exslt/2002-May/000468.html
2002-11-12 http://www.exslt.org/exsl/functions/node-set/
Thanks for your explanations.
Manfred
On 22/02/07, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> wrote:
The implementation of exsl:node-set() in Saxon 6.x is a bit of a hack. A
result tree fragment in Saxon 6.x is a document node, with a special bit set
to say "I am a result tree fragment": this bit artifically disables
operations such as "/" applied to the document node. The effect of
exsl:node-set() is to unset this bit in situ, thus enabling such operations.
A bit dirty, but the XSLT spec allows extension functions to do anything you
like, so it's not technically non-conformant.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manfred Staudinger
[mailto:manfred(_dot_)staudinger(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
> Sent: 21 February 2007 22:21
> To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> Subject: [xsl] exsl:node-set and Saxon 6.5.5
>
> Hi All,
>
> As I rely heavily on the superb diagnostics of Saxon when
> testing client-side (browser) XSLT 1.0 I would like to
> understand the following.
>
> When I run the stylesheet below with SAXON 6.5.5 (with two
> <xsl:copy-of statements) then the (unexpected) output is
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <test>
> <Title>From exsl:node-set($rtf)/a/b:</Title>
> <b>
> <c>
> <d/>
> </c>
> </b>
> <Title>Directly from $rtf/a/b/c:</Title>
> <c>
> <d/>
> </c>
> </test>
>
> However, if I delete the first <xsl:copy-of then I get this
> error message from the other one
> To use a result tree fragment in a path expression, either
> use exsl:node-set() or specify version='1.1'
> as I think correctly.
>
> Did I miss something XSLT-wise ?
>
> Regards, Manfred
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common";
> exclude-result-prefixes="exsl"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:variable name="rtf">
> <a>
> <b>
> <c>
> <d />
> </c>
> </b>
> </a>
> </xsl:variable>
> <test>
> <Title><xsl:text>From
> exsl:node-set($rtf)/a/b:</xsl:text></Title>
> <xsl:copy-of select="exsl:node-set($rtf)/a/b"/>
> <Title><xsl:text>Directly from
> $rtf/a/b/c:</xsl:text></Title>
> <xsl:copy-of select="$rtf/a/b/c"/>
> </test>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
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