Re: Reference and First-Class Function

> > 
> > References, either to nodes or to sequences, do exist in XSLT 
> > and everybody uses them.
> > 
> This is a bit like saying that mutable storage exists in XSLT because all
> known implementations use it internally. It's confusing what's present in
> the language semantics with what might be present in the internals of an
> implementation.


Could be like this, were it not for the excellent books that explain how references to nodes are returned by <xsl:sequence>.


Cheers,
Dimitre