On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I want to know why I cannot write  (1 to n)/"$1" to give
>> me the string "$1" n times in XSLT 2.0.
>
> I believe they tried hard to make it work, but the complexities
> involved became too great.
>

So  XQuery1.0/XPath 2.0 is does not observe the principle of compositionality.