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James Clark wrote: > >If XSLT allowed you do anything with result tree fragments that you can >do with source node sets, then you would in effect be able to do >multi-pass processing in XSLT: Yes this is the idea. Of course this can be done today using javascript and Microsoft's extensions transformNode and transformNodeToObject. Having this nice ability within the spec will reduce the need to go outside the spec for many applications. As Oren Ben-Kiki has demonstrated, multiple passes can be in certain cases hacked using result strings and string manipulation. The ability to use result sets as node sets will keep implementations clean and in the node domain rather than the string domain. By this argument, the processing complexity may indeed be much less than alternate yet allowed mechanisms. Is the implementation complexity really that much greater? Jonathan Borden http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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