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Re: variable question

Subject: Re: variable question
From: Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:31:34 +0100
Re:  variable question
Jeni Tennison wrote:

In other words, you can do things like:

keyword/lower-case(.)

*big sigh of happiness*


but you can't do:

keyword/lower-case(.)/substring-before(., '-')

Pity.


I've been using a programming language in which atomic values could be part of a node-set as well. Works really nice sometimes. The syntax is almost similar to XPath, but the / is replaced by . (period) and is called a 'replacement operator'. It substitutes each value of the node set that resulted from the previous steps by the values (or nodes) from the following step. The result of each step is flattened to one list, though the evaluation order is still depth first unless braces are used...

descendant[?noteref].getindex(@id).($note := this).(<|ref, @id:=$note.@id|> node, <|footnote id:=$note.@id |> node { $node.contents})

And this can be continued endlessly...

(Does this look familiar to anyone? ;-)

Grtz,
Geert

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