XOM API for Processing XML with Java

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

> For the W3C XQuery Serialization spec, all result sequence nodes to  
> be serialized may be parentless, except attributes and namespaces.  
> Should be easy to fix as far as I can see...

Actually, the restriction on serializing attribute nodes and namespace nodes
in that spec applies whether or not they have a parent.

Essentially the spec says that if you want to serialize anything other than
a document, you wrap a document node around it, as in
<xsl:document><xsl:copy-of select="$seq"/></xsl:document>; and this throws
an error if $seq contains attribute or namespace nodes.

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