Basically, XSLT made some compromises on functional purity with
xsl:result-document, which XQuery wasn't prepared to contemplate. The XQuery
designers, coming from the database query language tradition, have always put
optimisability at the top of their agenda, and that meant that fn:transform()
wasn't going to be acceptable if it could have side effects.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
On 11 Feb 2021, at 20:12, Ihe Onwuka <ihe(_dot_)onwuka(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Yes I see this is what it was designed to do....I could also serialize this
out by specifying a post-process function.
Too much extra palava - it was only meant to be an XQuery wrapper around an
already working transformation.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 2:49 PM Liam R. E. Quin
<liam(_at_)fromoldbooks(_dot_)org <mailto:liam(_at_)fromoldbooks(_dot_)org>>
wrote:
On Thu, 2021-02-11 at 09:27 -0500, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
However if I invoke it from XQuery with fn:transform like so
xquery version "3.1";
fn:transform(map { 'stylesheet-node' : doc('test.xsl')})?output
none of the result-documents are created.
You need to go on my XSLT course :-)
What happens is the content that would have been written out via
result-document ends up in the result map, with the keys being the URIs
to which they would have been written.
So, save the result of fn:transform() and use map:keys() or map:each()
to find them and use e.g. file:write() or fn:put() or database:store-
somewhere() as appropriate.
Liam
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