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Re: Future XSLT expansion.

Subject: Re: Future XSLT expansion.
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:19:20 GMT
obtain a node set

> This said, we can still
> question why this is not possible because having the possibility to obtain a
> node set from a variable could be potentially very useful.

Note you can obtain a node set from a variable, but just not from a
variable that holds a result tree fragment.


The fact that accessing result tree fragments would be useful is
documented in appendix G of the spec.

So one assumes they just ran out of time and didn't want to risk
including this in the 1.0 version until all issues had been more worked
out.

David

     G Features under Consideration for Future Versions of XSLT
     (Non-Normative)


        a way to put the text of a resource identified by a URI into the result tree;

        allow for result tree fragments all operations that are allowed for node-sets;


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