[Bug 7354] New: Meaning of "part of a sequence constructor"

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7354

           Summary: Meaning of "part of a sequence constructor"
           Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
           Version: Recommendation
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#forwards
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: trivial
          Priority: P5
         Component: XSLT 2.0
        AssignedTo: mike@saxonica.com
        ReportedBy: zongaro@ca.ibm.com
         QAContact: public-qt-comments@w3.org


In section 3.9 of XSLT 2.0,[1] the third bullet of the second list begins, "if
an element in the XSLT namespace appears as part of a sequence constructor, and
XSLT 2.0 does not allow such elements to appear as part of a sequence
constructor," and then goes on to describe the behaviour, depending on whether
the element has any xsl:fallback children.

Now consider the following fragment:

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:choose version="8.5">
    <xsl:when test="condition">
      Do something
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      Do something else
    </xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:finally>
      <xsl:fallback/>
    </xsl:finally>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Presumably the xsl:finally here is not considered to be "part of the sequence
constructor," despite the fact that it is part of the content of a node that is
part of the sequence constructor.

If that interpretation is correct, I would suggest adding the following
sentence after the second list to decrease the possibility of confusion:  "A
node is considered to be part of the sequence constructor if it is one of the
sequence of sibling nodes of which the sequence constructor is composed. 
Descendants of such a node are not part of the sequence constructor."

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#forwards


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Received on Monday, 17 August 2009 19:14:22 UTC