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Re: Does the count() function require access to the wh

Subject: Re: Does the count() function require access to the whole subtree?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:31:30 -0500
Re:  Does the count() function require access to the wh
Hi,

Thanks Mike for confirming my intuition. And thanks to Dimitre for
taking my second question to its logical limit (I think) and posing it
there. :-)

Cheers, Wendell
Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com
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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> For example, your pipeline could collect all //x (streaming) and then
>> reverse them (not streaming).
>>
>> In principle, you would need only the memory for holding //x (or
>> rather, copies of //x or pointers to them), not the entire collection
>> within which they are found.
>
> Generally you can't keep a "pointer" to a streamed node, because it's
transient. But you can keep a copy.
>
> So you should be able to do
>
> reverse(/copy-of(/x))
>
> The result of copy-of(//x) is grounded (it doesn't contain any streamed
nodes), and that makes it amenable to operations such as reverse().
>>
>>
>> I also had a related question, back in September. It wasn't answered
>> (rare for this list), either because it wasn't clear, or because XML
>> Summer School was going on at the time. Or both.
>
> Or possibly because the streaming design was completely up in the air at
that moment because we had just found a major bug. But I think we've still got
some issues with multi-phase streaming that need to be sorted out (that is,
with reading from a stream of nodes that is itself constructed by the
stylesheet), and such use cases need further work: we've got an agenda item to
discuss this.
>>
>> http://xsl-list.markmail.org/thread/pwuzpcvdoi7eam4h
>>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica

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