XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

> 
> Michael Kay scripsit:
> 
> > It *must* be possible to pass in a XOM document as the value of the
> > parameter; ideally any node, or list of nodes.
>
John Cowan (off-list): 
> That's another can of worms altogether.  How does a random 
> stylesheet engine
> know how to coerce a XOM object to whatever it expects to see 
> as a representation
> of the node-list type?
> 

If a random XSLT processor can cope with XOM nodes in its principal source
document, then it can cope with them in a secondary document supplied by
parameter. (And if it can't, then it can't). I don't see the difference.

Michael Kay