Re: for vs. for-each

On 14.03.2021 19:04, Michael Müller-Hillebrand [email protected] wrote:

> Given a variable with a sequence of values
>
> <xsl:variable name="values" select="(1,2,3,4,5)" as="xs:double+"/>
>
> these are three methods to report its content:
>
> <xsl:sequence select="for $i in 1 to count($values) return $values[$i]"/>
>
> <xsl:for-each select="1 to count($values)">
>      <xsl:sequence select="$values[.]"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> <xsl:for-each select="1 to count($values)">
>      <xsl:sequence select="$values[current()]"/>
> </xsl:for-each>


Why not simply
   <xsl:sequence select="$values"/>
?

Or if you want to use a for expression why the need to use a positional
index, why can't you use
   for $i in $values return $i
?
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