Michael Kay wrote:

I would tend to write that as



<xsl:function name="get-attributes" as="xs:string*">
  <xsl:param name="string" as="xs:string"/>
  <xsl:sequence select="'BLD'[contains($string, 'bold')],
'ITA'[contains($string, 'italic')]"/>
</xsl:function>

Thank you for your answer. This I was looking for all the time: a way to 
create a sequence of string in the select of xsl:sequence. However, I 
don't understand completely what is going on in that select. I have your 
programmers reference. If you could tell me what  section I should read 
to understand it, I would be grateful...




or if it were a longer list of names then



<xsl:variable name="styles" as="element(style)">
  <style name="BLD" code="bold"/>
  <style name="ITA" code="italic"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:function name="get-attributes" as="xs:string*">

  <xsl:param name="string" as="xs:string"/>

  <xsl:sequence select="$styles[contains($string, @code)]/@name"/>

</xsl:function> 

I am going to use this one. Obviously the two missing links were the 
xsl:function element and the xsl:sequence use. I suspect I only use a 
subset of the xslt2 features...



Thanks for helping!



regards, Ruud