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Re: [xsl] user-defined XSLT functions and stylesheet variables?

2021-06-20 11:12:30
On Sun, 2021-06-20 at 08:01 +0000, Michael Kay mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com 
wrote:

But i agree there are cases where it makes sense.   Sometimes i
write,
 <xsl:variable name="input" select="/" />
for example, 

Yep, we all do that, and it's very handy, but it also has a
devastating impact: it severely restricts your abiliity to r[...]
change it to process a collection of documents,

That's very true. A conversion into a tunnel parameter will work for
templates but not functions.

A non-streamable function fn:input-document() might be a win!

Liam

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