Re: Error in XPath 2.0 expression Too many items

Thanks everybody. My problem is resolved now.


Cheers
Rob

On 1/3/06, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Just to speculate some more, I guess you have something like this:
> >
> > <xsl:variable name="vCityStateZip">
> >   <xsl:value-of select="city"/>
> >   <xsl:value-of select="state"/>
> >   <xsl:value-of select="zip"/>
> > </xsl:variable>
> >
> > and you really want:
> >
> > <xsl:variable name="vCityStateZip" as="xs:string">
> >   <xsl:value-of>
> >     <xsl:value-of select="city"/>
> >     <xsl:value-of select="state"/>
> >     <xsl:value-of select="zip"/>
> >   </xsl:value-of>
> > </xsl:variable>
> >
> > The former is sequence of several items, the latter is a
> > sequence of one item.
>
> Actually, the former is a single item: a document node. An xsl:variable
with
> child instructions and no "as" attribute always produces a document node.
>
> But IIRC there were reports that an early version of the Altova XSLT 2.0
> processor got this wrong.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/