RE: Saxon versus Xalan implementations of evaluate()

Michael:

> Saxon 8.x does too much optimization to be able to guarantee that variables
> declared in the stylesheet actually exist as such at run-time (for example,
> variables that are never referenced are ignored completely). So I decided to
> disallow direct access to variables in saxon:evaluate(). Instead, you can
> pass parameters $p1..p9 to the query, e.g.
> 
> saxon:evaluate("$p1 + 3", $x)
> 
> returns 5 if $x is initialized to 2.

Will it work if you do something like this:

   saxon:evaluate("$p1/node1/node2", $x) where $x is a node set?

ie. Will it look for node1/node2 in the node set contained in $x?

Thanks!


....Andrzej

Chaeron Corporation
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