Re: Processiing arrays in XSLT 4

On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 at 17:47, Liam R. E. Quin <liam@fromoldbooks.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 13:03 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
> >
> > I think we can also allow <xsl:for-each map="$map">
>
> I wonder if this could be taken into XPath so that a modified
>   for $e in $map
> could also work over map keys and array members?
>
> E.g. for $e in map $e
> (that looks like it'll cause ambiguities but $e can't start wit a { so
> maybe it's OK)
>

There is an issue for this in https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues/31
about extending the new `for member ...` syntax to maps:

    for member $entry in $map
    return element { $entry?key } { $entry?value }


Kind regards,
Reece


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