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Subject: RE: [xsl] value and/or type of node()
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:31:40 +0100

node() means ./child::node(), that is, it selects children of the context
node. The context node changes inside a predicate.

Regards,

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Penny [mailto:d_penny@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 17 July 2009 18:40
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] value and/or type of node()
> 
> Well, let's see if my posting ability is up to standard?
> 
> I am simply experimenting with ways of "passing args" to 
> templates, XSLT 1.0, Sharepoint environment.
> 1) I succeeded in "with-param"
> 2) MK's book says that <xsl:template> is executed with no 
> change to context, current node is preserved, page 181, and 
> elsewhere that RTFs or single-node sets can generally be used 
> as string values, so I try:
> 
> <xsl:template name="oneCell" >
> 	<td>
>     <xsl:variable name="v1" select="node()"/>
> OK	<xsl:value-of select="count($Rows[@GroupAssigned=$v1])"/>
> BAD     <xsl:value-of select="count($Rows[@GroupAssigned=node()])"/>
> 	</td>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Which is called inside of a for-each loop, doing "pull" style 
> processing.
> 
> Why does one work and not the other? What do I not understand?
> 
> Dick Penny


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