Re: exslt:node-set differs between Xalan-J and XSLTC

Julian Reschke <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:05:51 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xalan.java.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 21.10.2010 16:30, Julian Reschke wrote:
> ...
> My expectation is that applying node-set() to a node set should be
> harmless, but
>
> <http://www.exslt.org/exsl/functions/node-set/index.html>
>
> indeed doesn't say -- but I'm ready to say it's the only sane thing to
> do...
> ...

Here we go:

<http://www.exslt.org/exsl/functions/node-set/exsl.node-set.html>:

"The purpose of the exsl:node-set function is to return a node-set from 
a result tree fragment. If the argument is a node-set already, it is 
simply returned as is..."

Conclusion: a bug in Xalan-J.

Best regards, Julian