- From: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:41:42 +0100 (BST)
- To: Alex Milowski <alex@milowski.org>, public-xml-processing-model-wg <public-xml-processing-model-wg@w3.org>
> The contained step 'a' should be executed as many times as there > are 'x' subtrees but it doesn't use as input anything in the > viewport and doesn't contribute to the viewport's output. I am reminded of the hack used in XSLT 1 to do something ten times: get a node-set with 10 nodes in it - (//node())[position() < 10] perhaps - and do a for-each on them. I don't think we should ban it, but perhaps we should provide some other simple iteration construct. -- Richard
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