Nice, thanks for the correction and the info David!  I will file this
away for future needs.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 7:27 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Passing arrays as parameters

  
   A slightly less expensive way to do this is to pass the array in as a
   string of XML-like data and then serialize it into a node-set using
the
   node-set function particular to your processor.  Then you can process
it
   just like any other node-set.

   Best of luck!

   <M:D/>


If you passed in a string with XML syntax you'd want a parse extension
function not a node-set() (ie the opposite of serialization) Saxon for
example offers such a function.

On the other hand, if called from an API ratherthan from a command line,
most XSLT engines will allow you to pass in a node set as a parameter so
no extension function should be needed.

David

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