first-of-any operates before or after selection?

["Mark D. Anderson" <mda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(Sorry, I'm being obnoxious and reposting this query in the
hopes of getting an answer.)
-mda

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark D. Anderson <mda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 7:30 PM
Subject: first-of-any operates before or after selection?


>are first-of-any() and friends supposed to be booleans on the
>source document tree, or are they supposed to be booleans
>on the subset of the tree that corresponds to the current
>for-each or apply-templates?
>
>xt seems to be behaving with the first interpretation
>(i can't figure out which is the right interpretation from the WD).
>
>i've got this code:
>
><xsl:for-each select="*[@updateable='yes']">
><xsl:if test=".[not(first-of-any())]">, </xsl:if>
><xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
></xsl:for-each>
>
>to construct a comma-separated list, but unfortunately the
>leading comma is being displayed. to me, that says that "any"
>means "any in the source document tree", not "any in the
>current select". If so, what am i supposed to do?
>
>-mda



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