Re: [xsl] ordering and iteration problem

[Mark Nahabedian <naha at ai dot mit dot edu>]

Dan Diebolt writes:

 > If you are low on nodes, why can't you take your random-nodes from
 > both the stylesheet and source XML document?
 > 
 > xsl:variable name="random-nodes" 
 >    select="document('')//node()|//node()" />

I know that the source XML document has enough nodes since the
elements that I need to use the random nodes iteration hack for is a
subset of it.  I don't know for sure if the XSLT transform document
will have enough nodes.  I was just wondering why this "design
pattern" was typically described using "document('')//node()" when
"//node()" seemed to be more correct.

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