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> I think the point of the example was that the expectation was that the > variable didn't have a set (sequence) semantic but rather was a string > as if string($f) had been applied, due to the as attribute on the > xsl:variable (which is a 2.0 feature of course). The variable was defined as: <xsl:variable name="foo" select="nothing" as="xs:string?"/> The select expression yields a node-sequence, the as expression requires atomic values, so XSLT invokes atomization. The result of atomizing an empty node-sequence is an empty sequence of strings. > > But I think it's true to say that as="xs:string" does _not_ force an > empty sequence to coerce to an empty string, isn't it? The only conversions forced by the "as" attribute are atomization and numeric promotion (e.g. int to double). It doesn't cause a cast. If the "as" attribute had said "xs:string" rather than "xs:string?", a type error would be reported. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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