Re: [xsl] XPath question

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:55 AM 6/7/2006, Andrew wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > Doesn't your problem reduce to the first c node descendant?
> >
> > /descendant::c[1]
> >
> > ?
>
> With XSLT 1.0's first item semantics, couldn't you reduce that to:
>
> /descendant::c

If you only wanted the string value, yes.

If you wanted to apply a template to the node or do something else 
with it, then you need the predicate.

> (not that that is a good a idea...)

Yeah, I'm training myself out of relying on this rule as it lapses 
with XSLT 2.0. IMO the scale has tipped and it's now better always to 
add the [1].

Cheers,
Wendell