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This is an old revision of Lists made by DavePawson on 2010-05-10 02:20:57.
Plain lists
These are lists of items which might be strings for instance. Created with the '(' ... ')' notation. For example
ls=(a b c) or to access the command line parameters from a script, as, say 'xmlsh scriptname a.xml b.xml c.xml parms=$@ for f in $parms do echo $f done which will produce a.xml b.xml c.xml on stdout
To retain the list nature of a command output, use the form ($var) e.g.
lst=$(ls) for file in $lst do echo $file done
xml items
To form a 'list' of xml items, use the notation '<[item, item, item]>'
But note that the contents of the list can be any type valid for xml, including content from the current context, e.g.
ls=<[a, "b", //x[3]]>
which adds the content of element a (from the current context), a string "b" and the third x element from the root context.
Note the difference between the two types of list and use the appropriate form
