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Re: Error 80004005 eof - Microsoft XML Parser (September Drop)

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Ben,

I can't speak to the MSXML, but....

.[ancestor::sidebar[1]] expands to

self::node()[ancestor::sidebar[1]]

which translates into English as

"Are you a node with an ancestor sidebar that's your first sidebar ancestor?"

This could be simplified as

ancestor::sidebar[1]

which translates as

"Do you have an ancestor named sidebar that's the first sidebar ancestor?"

But of course, if there are any sidebar ancestors, there's a first one: why not just ask

ancestor::sidebar "Do you have any sidebar ancestors?"

Now, you may actually mean

ancestor::*[1][self::sidebar]

which is XPath for

"Is your first ancestor element a sidebar?"

Or even better:

parent::sidebar

"Do you have a parent 'sidebar'?"

Yet, to my eye there's nothing syntactically wrong with ".[ancestor::sidebar[1]]". So MSXML may have a bug, even if it's easy to avoid in this case.

Someone else may be able to speak to differences between the MSXML builds.

Hope that helps!
Wendell

At 01:55 PM 10/19/00 -0700, you wrote:

I am having a problem with the September drop of the Microsoft Parser.
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In the stylesheet I have the following code, which works fine with the July
build of the parser but not the September build:
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<xsl:when test=".[ancestor::sidebar[1]]">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test=".[ancestor::sect4
[1]]">
<h4><xsl:apply-templates /></h4>
</xsl:when>
Can anyone please let me know of the correct syntax to use and why this build is
specifically choking on this piece of code. It would be great if anyone could
give me their experience with the stability of the two builds in a production
environment. (Yeah, I know it is Beta code, but still...)

Thanks in advance,

_Ben

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