Saxon XSLT and XQuery Processor

> 
> If I subsequently pass "valid" to, for example, a 
> transformer, should I expect tests like the following 
> 
>       <xsl:when test="@href instance of xs:anyURI">
> 	<xsl:text>href is an xs:anyURI</xsl:text>
>       </xsl:when>
> 
> to work (assuming @href on the context element is defined as 
> xsd:anyURI in the schema, of course)?

Well, certainly (data(@href) instance of xs:anyURI) should work, as should
(@href instance of attribute(*, xs:anyURI))! The "instance of" operator does
not atomize its operand; a node is never an instance of an atomic type

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

"Michael Kay" <mike@...> writes:
> Well, certainly (data(@href) instance of xs:anyURI) should work, as should
> (@href instance of attribute(*, xs:anyURI))! The "instance of" operator does
> not atomize its operand; a node is never an instance of an atomic type

Yep. It was just me :-)

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                                          norm

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