On 12/01/2014 11:10, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
A couple days ago Michael Kay wrote:
Inspection operations on an element are operations that can be
performed while positioned at the start tag.
Inspection operations include: count(), exists(), name().
Absorption operations are operations that require access to the whole
subtree.
Absorption operations include: string(), data(), xsl:value-of
Michael, doesn't the count() function require access to the whole
subtree? How would a count be conducted by sitting at the top of a
subtree? Perhaps you meant to say that the count() function is an
absorption operation?
/Roger
consider count(/) and string(/)
count() can return 1 straight away, whereas string() needs to process
the entire tree below /.
David
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