Re: Using the Input Document to Control Generation of

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Subject: Re: Using the Input Document to Control Generation of Numbers in the Output
From: Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:50:16 +0200

Kerry, Richard wrote:

I had wondered about the "(@size, 1)[1]" term, which I'd not seen before
but I think I have now worked out.  If there is no "size" attribute, the
term "@size" returns null and thus does not appear as a first node in
the node-set, ie what's within the (), and thus [1] returns what appears
to be the second element, the '1'.

More precisely, in XSLT 2.0 (the above construct will error in XSLT 1.0) is a _sequence_ of items, of which the first item is a selection of an attribute-node and the second item is an integer. When the attribute-node selection returns nothing, the selection will actually return the empty sequence, and indeed, you guessed correctly, empty sequences are folded when they are part of a sequence:

if @size is not there (@size, 1) becomes ((), 1) which then becomes (1). if @size is there, (@size, 1) will beomce (@size, 1), i.e., it does not change, @size holds the selected attribute-node.

This shortcut is often used, but when you start out with XSLT 2.0, you may prefer the more verbose form:

if (@size) then @size else 1

which is semantically equivalent with (@size, 1)[1].


Cheers,
-- Abel --

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