On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 5:15 PM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The examples for those two functions seem a bit artificial as the
> problem they solve could be easily solved with
>
>     string-join($inpValues, '.')
>
> respectively
>
>    string-join(reverse($inpValues), '.')
>
> in earlier XPath versions without any need for higher-order functions
> and recursion or just as well at the XSLT level with
>
>    <xsl:value-of select="$inputValues" separator="."/>
>
> respectively
>
>    <xsl:value-of select="reverse($inputValues)" separator="."/>
>

Thanks, Martin for the thoughts. I'll mention above points in my document
as comparative approaches.

My intention was to, illustrate concepts and learn the mechanics of
fold-left() and fold-right() functions no matter what the user algorithm
was.





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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi