Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - string() from XPath 1.0 [Thread Next] Re: [xml-dev] string() from XPath 1.0To: "Michael Kay" <mike@--------.---> Date: 4/3/2007 4:34:00 AM Hello Michael, On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:02:09 +0100 "Michael Kay" <mike@s...> 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/ > -- Oleg Parashchenko olpa@ http://xmlhack.ru/ XML news in Russian http://uucode.com/blog/ Generative Programming, XML, TeX, Scheme http://olpa.livejournal.com/ | ||||||
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