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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Comparing node for identity using union
 For XSLT 1.0, *the* place to look is at the XPath 1.0 Recommendation. (In addition to learning from the fine words on this list.) http://www.w3.org ... A synopsis:
Five (or four and a half) data types:
Boolean
Number (including NaN)
String
Node-set
Result tree fragment
Result tree fragments may be generated and copied or processed as strings,
but may not be traversed as if they were node-setsIn XPath 1.0, implicit casting rules provide for dynamic casting of these types to one another; for example, in a string processing context a number can be automatically cast ("coerced") to a string. Functions also operate on different data types, sometimes differently depending on the type provided. (For example, document($doc) when doc is a string or node set.) The rules for how this happens are documented in the Rec. Node types: root elements attributes text nodes comments processing instructions namespaces Every node in a source tree has a string value, which is often used in operations on that node when a string is called for. It is defined differently for the different types of nodes. (For example, the string value of a text node is the text as a string; the string value of an element node is the concatenation of the string values of all its text node descendants.) These rules are also not hard to learn. For the most part, since this casting happens implicitly you only have to think about types when things get gnarly -- which they sometimes do. Mike just told the XSLT 2.0 story.... Regards, Wendell At 09:03 AM 1/19/2005, you wrote: This might be a good time for one of the gurus on this list to briefly explain data-types in XSLT for us n00bs. ___&&__&_&___&_&__&&&__&_&__&__&&____&&_&___&__&_&&_____&__&__&&_____&_&&_ "Thus I make my own use of the telegraph, without consulting the directors, like the sparrows, which I perceive use it extensively for a perch." -- Thoreau 
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