- From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 17:39:09 +0000
- To: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-xslt-40@w3.org
>
> Why not just:
>
> <xsl:array select ="{expressionProducingAnArray}"/>
>
Constructing an array when you need to invoke xsl:apply-templates as part of the array construction is very inconvenient at present, and that's a common requirement when transforming XML to JSON.
Also, there's no easy way in XPath of constructing a completely general array: the [...] constructor only works if the size of the array is known statically, and the array{...} constructor only works if each member of the array is a singleton.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
Received on Saturday, 9 January 2021 17:39:24 UTC