On 18.06.2021 20:40, Alan Painter alan(_dot_)painter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com wrote:
Hi fellow XSLT enthusiasts,
I've been constructing json in XSLT using xsl:map and xsl:map-entry and
the resulting code looks really nice. But I'm a bit stuck with arrays
and was hoping for some enlightenment.
Within the template for "/books" I find that I have to declare a
variable in order to represent the sequence of maps that come from the
nested apply-templates.
I'd like to be able to do away with the intermediate $books variable
which is used for the purpose of constructing the array using the xpath
"array { ... }" expression.
Is there a more elegant way of doing this?
With Saxon PE and EE there is an extension instruction saxon:array you
can use.
And XSLT 4 has some new element doing similar stuff.
But in pure XSLT 3 you need some way to work around the lack of that
instruction so your variable or a function that then does
apply-templates are needed for the general, recursive approach.
Of course for the limited sample you could be tempted to inline anything
as an XPath 3.1 expression.
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