On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 4:27 PM Mukul Gandhi gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With above mentioned XSLT stylesheet, the thing that worked is, not
> explicitly declaring the type for xsl:variable name="temp_result".
>

I find this strange.

With context to my example, if xsl:variable name="temp_result" without an
explicit type declaration on the variable, presents the result of this
variable as string (and string-length(translate(... working fine on such a
variable), why declaring like xsl:variable name="temp_result"
as="xs:string" work similarly (isn't using as="xs:string" a stronger signal
to the XSLT processor, to maintain the variable's value as string, and
presenting this string to a function expecting xs:string value fine)?

I'm using Saxon EE 10.2 as an XSLT 3.0 processor.



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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi