Re: Scalar -> node-set conversion (was How to distinguish b/

David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> > Will there be, or is there already, a method of declaring an empty
> > nodeset?
> 
> select="x[tobe and not(tobe)]"
> 
Thanks David - select="self::*[2]" seems to work well (if not quite so
poetically) too.

And now I see in http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#variables

<quote>

	NOTE: One convenient way to specify the empty node-set as the default
value of a parameter is: 

	                  <xsl:param name="x" select="/.."/>

</quote>

Should have read the spec....

Francis.
-- 
Francis Norton.

why not?


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