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Re: What the default datatype of an stylesheet paramet

Subject: Re: What the default datatype of an stylesheet parameter ?
From: Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:06:20 +0000
Re:  What the default datatype of an stylesheet paramet
On 24/11/2011 23:31, G. Ken Holman wrote:
At 2011-11-24 21:19 +0100, Matthieu Ricaud-Dussarget wrote:
When sending a parameter to the stylesheet( from command line with saxon for example), I thought it was always a string (which is a pitty when you need boolean parameter).

I made a simple test, sending "bar" to parameter foo :
<xsl:param name="foo"/>

In XSLT 1, that is, indeed, an empty string as you anticipated. In XSLT 2, however, that is the declaration of an empty sequence.
I think Ken is answering a different question - what is the default value of the parameter? If you don't supply a value, $foo will indeed be the empty sequence.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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