RE: XSLT 2.0: 2.3 / F&O: 15.4.6

> I suspect that I know what the "initial input sequence" is, but the 
> description in XSLT 2.3 and the associated material in F&O 
> 15.4.6 somehow 
> never seems, to me at least, to get to the point and to 
> clearly state what 
> the initial input sequence is.
> 
> Perhaps all that is needed is a sentence in 2.3 making clear 
> the relationship 
> between the initial input sequence and the documents to be 
> transformed.
> 

Thanks for the comment. My personal view is that now that both XSLT and
XQuery have global parameters, the input() function serves very little
useful purpose; I shall put in a proposal to drop it. But there may be
something I have overlooked.

Michael Kay

Received on Friday, 9 May 2003 14:38:16 UTC