Re: [xsl] invalid xpath?

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Kay wrote:
> > In one place the "." slipped into the 
> > code instead of "$Arg", and the template operated on the 
> > original text node instead of the partly processed one.
> >     
>
> This is one advantage of xsl:function over xsl:template - it prevents
> inadvertent use of expressions referring to the context node.

Very interesting point you make there, Michael. I always found it a miss 
of the specification that functions cannot act on the current node (yet 
I did see that it would have some non-trivial complications in terms of 
scope and manageability). From this point of view the motivation of that 
decision is much clearer.

Cheers,
-- Abel --