Re: Designs for XSLT functions (Was: Re: [xsl] RE: syntax sugar for call-template)

[David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>]

J> as a non-recursive and fairly hacky solution.
Hey I was going to post that:-)
One man's (or woman's) "fairly hacky" is another's "more in the XSLT
style" 

Personally an xsl:append looks deeply suspect to me, if it's required
for functions why isn't it required for the almost identical situation
of binding node sets to variables? If it is also required for that
is "append" the right concept for a declarative language, or should it
be more like
<xsl:variable select="foo[postion('some named construct corresponding 
to an xsl:sort setup') &lt; 5]"/>

David


 

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