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Hi Folks, My understanding of a map is that it is an object containing a bunch of key/value pairs. That seems pretty simple. In the XSLT 3.0 specification it has this example: <xsl:variable name="isbn-index" as="map(xs:string, element(book))" Okay, $isbn-index is that name of a map. The keys for that map must be strings and the value associated to each key must be a <book> element. Got it. Then the example assigns $isbn-index a value: select="map:new(for $b in //book return map{$b/isbn := $b})"/> Yikes! What is that? Let me try to parse it: Step 1. Create a new map. That's what "map:new(...)" does. Step 2. Loop through each <book> element. That's what "for $b in //book return ..." does. Step 3. For each <book> element create a map. That's what "map{$b/isbn := $b}" does. Huh? Step 1 creates a new map, so it should be assigned a bunch of key/value pairs, right? Step 3 is blasting it with a bunch of maps. Huh? Where are the new map's key/value pairs? I don't get it. Please help. Oh! Perhaps since each "inner map" object contains just one key/value pair, each inner map object gets "unwrapped" to yield its key/value pair to the "outer map" object. Ha! How do you like that theory? /Roger
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