Re: document scope difficulty (Was: decode( source, ... )

Subject: Re: document scope difficulty (Was: decode( source, ... )
From: James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 16:08:34 +0700
Steve Muench wrote:
> 
> I get mon34 as the output using our Oracle XSLT
> engine so I'm pretty sure the sum one is just a bug.

It's not.  XPath says that "A / by itself selects the root node of the
document ***containing the context node.***"

The solution is to have a top-level variable pointing to the root of the
main document:

  <xsl:stylesheet>

  <xsl:variable name="main" select="/"/>

and then use

  sum($main//amount)

James



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