Re: Designs for XSLT functions (Was: Re: RE: syntax su

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jeni Tennison wrote:
> <xsl:variable select="my:first-alphabetically($nodes, 5)" />
>
> <exsl:function name="my:first-alphabetically">
>    <exsl:param name="nodes" />
>    <exsl:param name="number" />
>    <xsl:for-each select="$nodes">
>       <xsl:sort />
>       <xsl:if test="position() &lt;= $number">
>          <exsl:append select="." />
>       </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:for-each>
> </exsl:function>

Yes.  This is what I was intending.  In general, any 
function which has to "build" a node-set could use
this method.  The recursive variant you had below
didn't look like fun at all; kinda nasty hoop to 
jump to just do an "append".

What do you all think?  

Clark


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