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Hi Jeni, > > I imagine that a processor would be able to spot situations where the > position() or last() function had been called and only compose the > steps that were composable. > It seems to me obviously not so -- I mean the general task of spotting ***any*** function in the expression, that could reference not only the specific item in the sequence. This includes any user-defined functions. This leads us to the great topic of type-checking and why it is necessary... In case there isn't strong type-checking such re-writing/optimisations are impossible in the general case. Cheers, Dimitre. __________________________________________________ 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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