Re: [xsl] Can a single XPath statement duplicate the functionality of this verbose <xsl:choose> statement?

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

Sorry, of course that should be <xsl:copy-of/>.

At 2011-10-23 20:18 -0400, I wrote:
> Presuming you have only a single attribute (the name() function will 
> abend if you have more than one), this may work for you ... it 
> expresses a sequence and selects the first member of that sequence:
>
> <xsl:copy select="( ../Location[name(@*)=name(current()/@*)] ,
>                     ../Location/@denomination ,
>                     '0' )[1]"/>
>
> This relies on the XPath 2 behaviour of sequence ( (), x ) 
> collapsing to ( x ).
>
> Note the use of current() to return the node that was current at the 
> start of evaluating the XPath expression (also available in XPath 1).
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . Ken


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