[xquery-talk] fn:transform running with default call-template invocation - no result-documents created

[Ihe Onwuka]

Interesting. fn:transform overrides the side effects in the invoked
transform and returns them as a map of result documents.
Mba Mba Mba Mba (that's for Uche).
Not what I wanted or would expect.


On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:35 PM Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:

> Posted on SO. It happens on Saxon 10.3 btw.
>
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66159827/fntransform-running-with-default-call-template-invocation-no-result-documents
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:27 AM Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This transform test.xsl copies (for the purpose of a small test example)
>> a directory of XML data by calling an identity transform for each
>> recursively encountered XML file.
>>
>> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>>         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
>>        xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>>                 xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions"
>>                 xmlns:map="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/map"
>> version="3.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsi fn xs map" expand-text="yes">
>>    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>>    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>>
>>    <xsl:variable name="currentStylesheet" as="document-node()"
>> select="doc('identity.xsl')"/>
>>    <xsl:template name="xsl:initial-template">
>>       <xsl:for-each
>> select="collection('file:///mnt/c/home/oneD/data/translatable' ||
>> '?select=*.xml;recurse=yes')">
>>          <xsl:result-document
>> href="{replace(document-uri(),'/data/translatable/','/translated/')}">
>>               <xsl:sequence select=" fn:transform(map {
>>                                    'stylesheet-node' :
>>  $currentStylesheet,
>>                                    'source-node'     :  .
>>                        })?output"/>
>>          </xsl:result-document>
>>       </xsl:for-each>
>>    </xsl:template>
>>  </xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>> However if I invoke it from XQuery with fn:transform like so
>>
>> xquery version "3.1";
>> fn:transform(map { 'stylesheet-node' :  doc('test.xsl')})?output
>>
>> none of the result-documents are created.
>>
>> Is there something wrong with the invoking XQuery? I have never before
>> tried this so it is my best attempt from reading the docs.
>>
>>
>>
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