Re: A node-set from concat()

<template match="@href" mode="foo">
...document(concat(@href, '.xjour')/entries/entry
...

I'm trying to open up multiple documents with an interface like:

document(concat($journal/external[@name='journal']/@href,'.xjour'))/ entries/entry

Obviously this won't work, since concat uses only the string value of the first node in any node-sets passed to it, returning a single string. I'd just like a similar function that concatenates each item in the node-set to other items in node-sets and strings. (Whether it would go over multiple node-sets in a multi-dimensional matrix or only the first node-set, I don't care at this point.) At the moment the only solution seems to be using yet another hack with a node-set extension.

I could put the extension back in the main file, but it would be difficult to use if I changed the extension (also, if I later change the folders the files are stored in, one for each user perhaps), and this acts as a security mechanism. Perhaps I should simply use an EXSLT function, since I wish to strip any dot and slash characters anyway. Would still need node-set(), however, at least until XPath 2.0 support is in Xalan.

I'm not sure whether keys could be turned to work, but I am sure they would be far too much trouble; all data comes from document() functions, the "input" being a null xml file, and "match" keys are difficult to use with multiple sources.

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