Re: XPath version

/ Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> was heard to say:
| Bearing in mind that all options are strings:
|
| <p:xslt>
|   <p:input name="source" select="/database/record[position() = $index]">
|     <p:pipe step="pipe" port="source" />
|   </p:input>
|   ...
| </p:xslt>
|
| Of course you could say that options were xs:untypedAtomic instead; at
| least that would make them castable.

Yes, I think we should make them untypedAtomic instead under this plan.

| Then the only problem would come
| if you actively created a string using something like:
|
| <p:xslt>
|   ...
|   <p:param name="monthName"
|     select="/months/month[position() = substring($date, 6, 2)]">
|     <p:document href="months.xml" />
|   </p:param>
|   ...
| </p:xslt>

Right, so it's down to

     select="/months/month[position() = number(substring($date, 6, 2))]">

if you want it to work in XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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