Re: minor improvements to XSLT 3.0 spec, "section 18.1

I think that technically, if you write "/book" then it isn't streamable,
because "book" is a downward selection and in the general case, "/book" isn't.
I think it will work with Saxon, which optimises the "/" away when it knows
the context item is a document node, but I can't see how adding a redundant
step to the path expression improves the example.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 19 Jan 2021, at 07:38, Mukul Gandhi mukulg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>     The XSLT 3.0 spec section mentioned in subject, has the following
example at the beginning,
>
> <xsl:source-document streamable="yes" href="book.xml">
>   <xsl:for-each select="book">
>     <xsl:for-each select="chapter">
>       <xsl:result-document href="chapter{position()}.xml">
>         <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>       </xsl:result-document>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:source-document>
>
> I think that, it may be better to have above example as follows,
>
> <xsl:source-document streamable="yes" href="book.xml">
>   <xsl:for-each select="/book">
>     <xsl:for-each select="chapter">
>       <xsl:result-document href="chapter{position()}.xml">
>         <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
>       </xsl:result-document>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:source-document>
>
> (I guess, the XSLT 4.0 spec intends to say one book with above example)
>
> Thanks for any comments.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi
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