Re: max() value of cells in a table

> Used in a straight xsl:value-of, it only returns

that's a feature of xsl:value-of not of for though.
value-of returns the string value of its argument so you never get a
sequence. If you use the xslt2 separator attribute on it though you at
least get the string value of all the terms, separated by whatever you
specified.

> In terms of utility, is it the only way to create
> a sequence from source content?

no, you could schema-type the content of an element to be a list type,
then you'd get a sequence directly.

all path expressions like /a/b/c return sequences in xpath2 as node sets
are no more.

but for is the main operation in xquery, taking on the roles of
xsl:for-each and xsl:apply templates, and Xpath2's for is a cut down
version of that, so is in some sense the main sequence mapping operation
in the current drafts.

David



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