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Re: when to use 'as' attribute on a variable

Subject: Re: when to use 'as' attribute on a variable
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:06:57 GMT
when to use as
  They're differents things.  Nodes are nodes in a tree, while items
  are just items of a sequence.  Nodes can be text(), element(), etc.


Not exactly, every value that matches node() also matches item() but
item() also includes atomic values.  In Xpath2 nodes don't have to be in
a tree, if you go

<xsl:variable name="x" as="element()">
<x/>
</xsl:variable>

then $x is an element node that does not live in a tree (it has no
parent, and no children) some Xpath functions are restricted to elements
that _do_ live in a tree (defined as meaning that root() is an instance
of document-node()) but most operations on these parentless elements
work as you would expect (so long as you expect the right thing)

David

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