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Subject: RE: [xsl] Possible to pass 'empty sequence' to function?
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:19:44 +0100

> > <xsl:variable name="y" as="string?">hello</xsl:variable>
> > 
> > $x is (a sequence of one) string with value "hello"
> 
> 
> Is this really the case?  Does it really mean that the 
> processor doesn't
> construct the temporary tree (and then atomise it?) - if so then it's
> really useful.

The semantics are that the processor creates a text node and then atomizes
it to a string.

What happens internally is of course up to the optimizer.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com

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RE: [xsl] Possible to pass 'empty sequence' to function?, (continued)
- Andrew Welch - 31 Mar 2005 10:59:20 -0000
  - Joe Fawcett - 31 Mar 2005 11:06:46 -0000
  - Dimitre Novatchev - 31 Mar 2005 11:11:49 -0000
  - Michael Kay - 31 Mar 2005 11:20:05 -0000 <=
- Andrew Welch - 31 Mar 2005 11:48:49 -0000
  - Michael Kay - 31 Mar 2005 12:12:04 -0000
  - Dimitre Novatchev - 31 Mar 2005 12:13:54 -0000

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