Re: testing for string and number in XSLT 2.0 was Re:

> after a little bit of thinking, decided regexps might be a better way to
> go to match a number and/or string when one cannot resort to anything
> schema based.....

even a basic processor (like saxon 8.x B) has access to the basic schema
numeric types integer, double, float etc.

the test number(.)=number(.) which works in XSLT1 as well of course is
still good, even for 2.0.

> I wanted to return a boolean
> type...but found doing something like <xsl:value-of select="true()"/> to
> be awkward.

xsl:value-of always generates text nodes so that wouldn't return a
boolean value but a text node with value the string "true".
Use xsl:sequence if you want to return an atomic value.

David

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