RE: [xsl] An issue with XPath 2.0 sequences (Was Re: RE: Muenchian method, and keys 'n stuff)

["Bryan Rasmussen" <bry at itnisk dot com>]

> > It's interesting that you can build a sequence of integers in XPath
> > 2.0 with the 'to' operator, but not a sequence of characters. For
this
> > situation, it would be really nice to be able to do:
> >
> >   <xsl:for-each select="'a' to 'z'">
> >     ...
> >   </xsl:for-each>
> >

if you could do something like this it would get hung up on languages
anyway, and would thus be processor dependant, like xsl:sort, if you're
sorting swedish or danish in saxon nothing gets sorted, have to use xalan.

couldn't one just do something like

<xsl:param name="alph">
<letter>a</letter>
...
<letter>z</letter>
</xsl:param>

<xsl:for-each select="$alph/letter[1] to $alph/letter[last()]">
....
</xsl:for-each>


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