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Re: info on sablotron?

Subject: Re: info on sablotron?
From: Petr Cimprich <petr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:49:15 +0200
sablotron node set
bryan wrote:

node-sets can be passed to XSLT as external objects.


Do you mean that a node-set can be passed and accessed without using a
node-set function?



To access an external object, it must be passed as argument to another extension function.


Do you mean that the exslt node-set() is not
supported but sablotron does have a way for working with node-sets? Or
do you mean that if a node-set is passed as an external object to the
xslt then the xslt can access said node-set without an extension
function, otherwise the xslt cannot access the node-set; I know this
sounds sort of weird but it's how things work in .Net when dealing with
external node-sets being passed in, when they're passed in you can't
access them with node-set() but just access them without an extension
function, and when you build up a node-set internal to your document you
need to use node-set() - so anyway that's the reason I ask what
otherwise seems like a weird question.


For XSLT, external objects are opaque things. They can only be passed from one custom function to another. External objects aren't a way to replace node-set() - just a possible workaround in some cases. The node-set() function is still in the to-do list.


Or is the "node-sets can be passed to XSLT as external objects" in
reference to "virtual xml documents" as per the xml.com article on the
same subject in Sablotron?


No, that's another storry :)


--
Petr Cimprich
Ginger Alliance
www.gingerall.com



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