Re: [xml-dev] string() from XPath 1.0

Hello Michael,

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:02:09 +0100
"Michael Kay" <> wrote:

...
> > Probably I'm overlooking something obvious, but... what else 
> > is possible except boolean, number, string and nodeset/node?
> 
> XSLT 1.0 added a fifth data type, "result tree fragment", and defined
> how result tree fragments were converted to strings.
> 
> And many XPath implementations allow calls out to Java (or similar
> languages) to return wrapped Java objects, supporting
> implementation-defined sets of operations often including conversion to
> string.

Aha, got it, thanks!

> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 


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