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Antonio,
At 01:46 PM 1/18/2005, you wrote:
Not just because I guess it to be less bug-prone, but also because I think it's more intuitively obvious, I have started using
/descendant::Menu[$pos]
as an alternative to the above.
A lot of XSLT code ends up getting thrown at newcomers to maintain these days. Part of my job is to make my code as clear as I can to people starting with the language. It's a design, er, "wrinkle" that //node[$pos] doesn't return what people guess it should (expect in buggy systems), before they learn the gory details of the XPath productions -- and that includes implementers. (I know this isn't the bug you found, but it's nearby isn't it?)
Re: [xsl] Comparing node for identity using union
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Subject: Re: [xsl] Comparing node for identity using union From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:57:04 -0500 |
Antonio,
At 01:46 PM 1/18/2005, you wrote:
Well, just for the record, i solve my problem, by using
<xsl:variable name="snode" select="(//Menu)[position()=$pos]"/>
instead of
<xsl:variable name="snode" select="(//Menu)[$pos]"/>
A million neurones i burn to reach this solution!!!
Not just because I guess it to be less bug-prone, but also because I think it's more intuitively obvious, I have started using
/descendant::Menu[$pos]
as an alternative to the above.
A lot of XSLT code ends up getting thrown at newcomers to maintain these days. Part of my job is to make my code as clear as I can to people starting with the language. It's a design, er, "wrinkle" that //node[$pos] doesn't return what people guess it should (expect in buggy systems), before they learn the gory details of the XPath productions -- and that includes implementers. (I know this isn't the bug you found, but it's nearby isn't it?)
Cheers, Wendell
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