On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 10:18:45 -0600, Florent Georges
<darkman_spam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

    <xsl:stylesheet
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3c.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
        version="2.0">
     <xsl:variable name="elem" as="element()">
        <elem a="value"/>
      </xsl:variable>
     <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:sequence select="$elem/@a"/>
      </xsl:template>
   </xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks for this, Florent!  I guess more of what I was asking was along the
lines of given two scenarios where, as far as a human is concerned, the
output is the same, would it be preferable to use xsl:sequence or
xsl:value-of?  For example,

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">

    <xsl:variable name="elem" as="element()">
        <elem>foo</elem>
    </xsl:variable>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:sequence select="$elem/text()" />
    </xsl:template>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">

    <xsl:variable name="elem" as="element()">
        <elem>foo</elem>
    </xsl:variable>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:value-of select="$elem/text()" />
    </xsl:template>

will both produce 'foo' in the final serialized output.  In this regard,
is there a reason why one might use xsl:sequence over xsl:value-of or
vice-versa?

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