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Subject: RE: [xsl] Slow XSLT
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:55:55 -0000
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> > > 2 - Here we are inside a loop
> > > <xsl:template match="results">
> > > <xsl:for-each select="$teams">
> > > <xsl:variable name="this" select="."/>
>
> > > Again does "." match the value of each team or the whole team
> > > element?
>
> > . is the string value of the current node, not the element itself
>
> I don't understand.
I think Andrew's explanation here was a bit confusing. "." and $this are
nodes. Operations like name(.) or ./@score treat the value as a node. But
other operators like "=" and "+" extract the content of the node - in XSLT
1.0 terms, the string value. So when you say [.='Scotland'], you're using
the string value of the node, but "." is actually the node.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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