Subject: Re: [xsl] xpath trickery (was A Question **TO** XSLT Newbies) From: S Woodside <sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:05:57 -0400 |
The online documentation is way poor (the XSLT spec is pretty good, the XPath spec is shite).
Interesting. Same author/editor for both specs. So maybe he didn't anticipate that people would find such difficulties with XPath either.
A lot of the resources about XSLT don't make it clear where the line between something being an XPath problem and an XSLT problem is >> drawn.
I am pretty sure this is deliberate. I assume the thinking is that XSLT and XPath are used together so teach them together.
XPath seems to have all kinds of special cases.
Care to share what you found particularly troublesome?
The syntax is totally overloaded
Is that the inevitable downside of compact? Or do you have something else in mind?
<xsl:value-of select="descendant-or-self::* [self::element or self::attribute][@name][1]/@name"/>
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