You can only process the items individually; which I'm afraid makes the feature
rather useless.
Perhaps an initial-match-selection() function might rescue it; but as Dimitre
says, it's just as easy to set a global parameter.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
On 12 Jan 2020, at 18:15, Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 3:32 AM Martin Honnen
martin(_dot_)honnen(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de
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In https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#dt-initial-match-selection
<https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#dt-initial-match-selection>, the XSLT 3 spec
outlines:
A stylesheet may be evaluated by supplying a value to be processed, together
with an initial mode <https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#dt-initial-mode>. The
value (which can be any sequence of items) is referred to as the initial
match selection.
and
specifically, each item in the input sequence is processed by selecting and
evaluating the best matching template rule
Does a stylesheet have any way of accessing the whole sequence? Or is it only
able to process each item in the sequence with a matching template?
For instance, if the initial match selection is a sequence of array items, is
there any way to merge those arrays? The function array:join
https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-array-join
<https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-array-join> can join a sequence
of arrays, but is there any way in that case of the initial match selection
being a sequence of arrays to apply it to that initial match selection?
I think that the Specification doesn't answer this question.
But the same can be achieved if you pass the desired sequence as a global
parameter.
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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