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Re: [xsl] parsing a complex xml tree into simple trees (a challenging problem at least for me :)

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David Carlisle wrote:

>  <xsl:param name="a" select=".//text()[contains(.,',')][1]"/>
> would be better as
>                              descendant::text()[contains(.,',')][1]

> which does what I intended (select the first node with a comma)
> although actually i think it doesn't make any difference here
> as $a is always used where XSLT1's implied first-node semantics
> will mean that the extra nodes that are selected when // is used
> don't do any harm.

  Mmh.  I don't understand what's the difference between the two
expressions.  You say that in the first one, the result is a node-set
which count() may be greater than 1, with the test "[1]".  Could you
please explain a bit further?

  Thanks,

--drkm



















	

	
		
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