Michael Kay

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icon company Saxonica icon location Reading, UK icon location Developer of the Saxon processor. Founder of Saxonica. Author of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference. Editor of the XSLT 2.0 and 3.0 specifications

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Function `map:build` does not allow expressing the dependency of a value on its key. Some simple types of maps cannot be built.

How would you write the following code with your map:build variant? ``` map:merge( for $a in 11 to 13 for $b in 1 to 3 return map:entry($a * $b, $a...

Function `map:build` does not allow expressing the dependency of a value on its key. Some simple types of maps cannot be built.

>Therefore, any claims that the processing takes quadrical times - are wrong. As you yourself point out, the complexity is O(m*n) where m is the number of distinct keys and...

Function `map:build` does not allow expressing the dependency of a value on its key. Some simple types of maps cannot be built.

I propose closing the issue with no action. The requirement can be solved as follows: > ("apple", "apricot", "banana", "blueberry", "cherry") > That is, every character, in every input string,...

Additional examples to fn:chain - in a new branch

I wrote in #1890: For example, the example `chain(2, ($range, $double-all, op("*")))` can be expressed as `2 => compose($range, $double-all, array:append([], ?), apply(op("*"), ?))`. Correction: The example `chain(2, ($range, $double-all,...

Additional examples to fn:chain - in a new branch

Closed by decision on #882 / #1984

Serialization parameter: `conditional-cdata`

An alternative, giving users complete control over generation of CDATA sections in serialized output, would be an option to map processing instructions with a given name to CDATA sections. With...

The Generator record - ready for a PR

This is a great demonstration of the power of the language we are creating but it seems to me that it is a layer on top of the language rather...