If you're not worried about the slight overhead, you could do
`tokenize(string(@attribute))`.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 26 Sep 2024, at 05:33, Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 04:21 +0000, Robert Stuart bobstuart@xxxxxxx
> wrote:
>>
>> tokenize(./@someAttribute) works great in HE but bombs in EE with A
>> sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the first argument
>> of fn:tokenize()
>
> Right. This is because the schema gives @someAttribute a type
> annotation saying it's a list, so it becomes a sequence.
>
> you could use e.g.
>   if (count(@someAttribute) gt 1) then @someAttribute else
> tokenize(@someAttribute)
>
> or have a template that only matches the attribute if it has a type
> annotation, and one tha tmatches if it doesn't and tokenizes it, and
> use apply-templates.
>
> <xsl:template match=".[. instance of my:listType]">....
>
> Or that's what i think late at night anyway :-)
>
> best
>
> liam
>
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