<map>
 <key name="k1">v1</key>
 <key name="k2">v2</key>
</map>

Joe
http://joe.fawcett.name/

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From: "Wolfgang Laun" <wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 7:28 AM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:  XML tags as map keys and impact on XSLT/XPath

Every now and then, people (not me) want to represent a Map<K,V> in XML by using
s.th. like
<map>
<k1>v1</k1>
<k2>v2</k2>
...
</map>
with ki from K and vi from V. Apart from the obvious limitation for K's values,
I feel that this is somehow violating the spirit of XML. But this is not a list
for XML, and I don't want to risk a red or yellow card.

So, more specifically: Doesn't such a "structure" complicate the writing
of XSLT constructs? Aren't there any statements or expressions that
won't be usable at all? (I don't need an exhaustive list of what isn't
possible - I'm more interested in a general judgment.)

Thanks
-W