RE: [xsl] xslt 2.0, use case wanted.

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I feel it will on occasion, be necessary to know this.
> The use case I arrived at, which failed to convince Mike,
> was that if I'm only processing 1 sect2 element, then I should
> number things from that node, not from the source document root node
> as would normally be the case.
> 
> Can you think of a better use case for knowing where your stylesheet
> started processing?

The initial node is in fact available, you can make it a global variable by
writing

<xsl:variable name="start" select="."/>

It's the initial template and initial mode that aren't available. Template
names and mode names are not things that a stylesheet normally manipulates
at run-time, and I think if we made them available it would quickly lead to
demands to specify modes and template names dynamically in call-template and
apply-templates (not that such demands would be new).

Michael Kay