Yes, you've worked out the spec by induction.
map:new() takes a collection of maps and concatenates them into a single map.
There are a number of usage patterns, one is to concatenate a set of singleton
maps representing individual map entries, another is to concatenate a ("real")
map and a singleton map, etc.
The design aimed to avoid introducing a "map entry" or "key value pair" as a
separate kind of object, since it can be adequately represented by a map
containing a single entry.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
On 14 Aug 2013, at 18:30, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
Hi Folks,
My understanding of a map is that it is an object containing a bunch of
key/value pairs.
That seems pretty simple.
In the XSLT 3.0 specification it has this example:
<xsl:variable name="isbn-index" as="map(xs:string, element(book))"
Okay, $isbn-index is that name of a map. The keys for that map must be
strings and the value associated to each key must be a <book> element.
Got it.
Then the example assigns $isbn-index a value:
select="map:new(for $b in //book return map{$b/isbn := $b})"/>
Yikes!
What is that?
Let me try to parse it:
Step 1. Create a new map. That's what "map:new(...)" does.
Step 2. Loop through each <book> element. That's what "for $b in //book
return ..." does.
Step 3. For each <book> element create a map. That's what "map{$b/isbn :=
$b}" does. Huh?
Step 1 creates a new map, so it should be assigned a bunch of key/value
pairs, right? Step 3 is blasting it with a bunch of maps. Huh? Where are the
new map's key/value pairs? I don't get it. Please help.
Oh! Perhaps since each "inner map" object contains just one key/value pair,
each inner map object gets "unwrapped" to yield its key/value pair to the
"outer map" object. Ha! How do you like that theory?
/Roger
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