Re: why is select=".[true()]" bad?

["John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:01 PM 09/04/2000 -0600, Mike Brown wrote:
> Why is it that a predicate is not allowed when I do something like
>
> <xsl:variable name="foo" select=".[@id=1]"/>
>
> I mean if the current node has an 'id' attribute numerically equal to the
> number 1, then $foo will be the current node; otherwise it will be an
> empty node-set, right? Both SAXON and XT gripe at me for having a
> predicate after . at all.

Guessing: Maybe because an ID-type attribute cannot have a numeric value? 
(Completely unrelated to XPath and XSLT, of course -- an XML restriction.)


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