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> > Point 3.) This essentially says there is currently no facility > > to iterate over two or more sequences in parallel rather than > > on the cartesian product. This is especially bad because > > there is no reasonable way to emulate this using the "for" > > operator. > > Actually, you can do it, using something like > > for $i in 1 to max((count($a), count($b))) return > if-absent($a[$i], 0) + if-absent($b[$i], 0) To be strict, it seems that $a[$i], where $a contains a sequence (not a node-set) is not valid syntax according to the current WD. Or am I wrong? Another point: How can we produce ***more than one*** sequence in parallel? For example, how to produce both: ($a(i) + $b(i))-sequence and ($a(i) * $b(i))-sequence In only one pass over $a and $b ? Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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