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Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: EXSL's dyn:evaluate() and XALAN vs. xsl:use-attribute-sets
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 23:34:05 +0100


> I think you cannot achieve more with it than with a ordinary Xpath
> expression.

Not so, it takes a string (eg an Xpath expression in a source file
and evaluates it as an xpath.

consider an input doc of the form
<x>
/a/b/c[2]
</x>
using standard XSLT you'd have a hard job to take that document and
evaluate the xpath, but evaluate(x) would do exactly that.

David

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