On Thu, Nov 01 2007 19:32:24 +0000, Scott(_dot_)Trenda(_at_)oati(_dot_)net
wrote:
I think I was trying to ask, is the template content of a variable
treated as its own document? It would make sense if it were,
considering
XSLT 1.0 [1] says:
A result tree fragment represents a fragment of the result tree. A
result tree fragment is treated equivalently to a node-set that
contains just a single root node.
EXSLT [2] says:
The exsl:node-set function returns a node-set from a result tree
fragment (which is what you get when you use the content of
xsl:variable rather than its select attribute to give a variable
value).
XPath 1.0 [3] says:
XPath operates on an XML document as a tree.
and [4]:
The root node is the root of the tree.
it's possible to create new nodes within it, rather than creating a set
RTF nodes are not node-set nodes.
You're not creating node-set datatype nodes until you use
exsl:node-set() to turn the RTF into a node-set (or you use xsl:copy-of
to copy the RTF to the result tree).
About all you can do with an RTF as an RTF is use its string value.
of references to nodes in the original document when @select is used.
Then exsl:node-set() essentially acts like document(), correct? I think
I was getting confused because I started out making copies of the nodes
in the template content.
The result of exsl:node-set() has the same general structure as a
document in that it has one root node, but that root node could have
multiple element node children (unlike an XML document).
Regards,
Tony Graham.
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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Result-Tree-Fragments
[2] http://www.exslt.org/exsl/functions/node-set/index.html
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#data-model
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#root-node
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