RE: [xsl] Expected token 'eof' encountered '['

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2003-07-09 10:39 -0500, Tengshe, Ashish wrote:
> Solved.
> Changed the line to
>
> <xsl:choose>
>    <xsl:when test="genre='Romance'">
>
> though I will like to know why that was happening?
> ...
> I'm getting the following error when trying to transform using MSXML/IE6.0
>
> Expected token 'eof' found '['. .-->[<--genre='Romance']
>
> The code in question is
>
> <xsl:choose>
>    <xsl:when test=".[genre='Romance']">

The XPath location step syntax of "." is a step abbreviation for 
"self::node()".  One cannot add predicates to a step abbreviation.

I hope this helps.

................. Ken

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