RE: [xsl] more on Using apply-templates instead of for-each?

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> For-each does operate on each node in a node-set, but they are operated
> on separately, as if they were single, unrelated nodes.  With for-each,
> for example, you can only get a position() of 1 on any one iteration,

Not at all. see the example in the spec that uses position() in a
for-each to not put a comma after the last item in a list.

for-each is just the same as an apply-templates that uses a private mode
and a single template that matches all nodes.

David


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