7354 2009-08-17 19:14:12 +0000 [XSLT 2.0] Meaning of "part of a sequence constructor" 2010-07-20 11:38:58 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XSLT 2.0 Recommendation PC Windows XP CLOSED FIXED http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#forwards P5 trivial --- 1 zongaro mike public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 26494 0 zongaro 2009-08-17 19:14:12 +0000 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 35860 1 mike 2010-05-27 16:52:15 +0000 Agreed to add this clarification, or an editorial variation of it if the editor can come up with better wording. 36898 2 mike 2010-07-15 09:40:57 +0000 This will be erratum E49. 37007 3 mike 2010-07-20 11:38:58 +0000 I propose to handle this by changing: if an element in the XSLT namespace appears as part of a sequence constructor to if an element in the XSLT namespace appears as a child of an element whose content model requires a sequence constructor