Re: Conformance of iXSLT ?

[Paul Terray <terray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:38 29/11/00 +0000, you wrote:
>   The part of the code is the following :
>   <xsl:variable name="ln_subframe" select="name(*)"/>
>   <xsl:number level="any"
>          count="*[*/caption and name(*)=$ln_subframe]"
>          format="1 "/>
>
>
> that's legal, but rather strange.
>
> * selects all the children of the current node.
> name() given a node set gives the name of the first node in the node
> set in document order.
>
> so ln_subframe is the name of the first child.

Sorry, I forgot to tell you : there is only one child for the frame element.

> Then
>
>  level="any"
>          count="*
>
> selects all previous nodes in the document and  filters so you
> count only those nodes that have a grandchild called caption,
> and a first child which has the same name as the first child
> of the current node (but this need not be the parent of the caption
> element)
>
> David

See previous remark.

I know what it does, I wrote it...

What I want to know is if it is legal, and in that case, does anyone use 
iXSLT in a project, and is it conformant.


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