Re: [xml-dev] what's missing in XML? What's coming?

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

On 3 January 2012 11:15, David Lee <dlee@calldei.com> wrote:
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> The *purpose* of XDM is to be the input to XQuery and XSLT. They are
> only defined to operate over XDM instances. I think I must not be
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> Try sending a sequence, non document node or atomic type as the primary
> input to xquery or xslt.
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> Not supported, very annoying for languages that as you say whose purpose is
> process is processing XDM

It's worked around easily enough by using a standalone transform and
supplying it as a parameter, or by pulling it in using a combination
of unparsed-text(), some wrapper markup and a parse() extension.

I think primary input xml might die off as the language evolves.


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Andrew Welch
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