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Subject: Re: variable question
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:41:54 -0500

Hi Bruce,

document() has been around since XSLT 1.0.

doc() is new with XPath 2.0.

As I understand it, XPath 2.0 defines document() in such a way that it works the same way as the old one, whereas doc() is defined as a more primitive function that takes a single string (and only that) as argument. Since document() takes either a string or a node set coerced to a set of strings, I'd continue to use it unless I had a reason not to.

In your particular case it might not actually make any difference.

XPath 2.0 doc() is specified at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-doc

XSLT 2.0 document() is specified at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#function-document.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 05:26 PM 11/10/2004, you wrote:

I don't really understand the difference between doc() and document(). In Jeni's response (thanks Jeni) I note she didn't comment on that. So what is the difference?


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Re: variable question, (continued)
- Wendell Piez - 10 Nov 2004 18:37:30 -0000
  - Bruce D'Arcus - 10 Nov 2004 19:51:32 -0000
    - Wendell Piez - 10 Nov 2004 21:54:01 -0000
    - Bruce D'Arcus - 10 Nov 2004 22:26:38 -0000
    - Wendell Piez - 10 Nov 2004 23:31:30 -0000 <=
    - Michael Kay - 10 Nov 2004 23:40:56 -0000
    - Jeni Tennison - 10 Nov 2004 22:01:35 -0000
    - Wendell Piez - 10 Nov 2004 22:34:54 -0000
    - Bruce D'Arcus - 10 Nov 2004 22:57:00 -0000

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