Subject: RE: [xsl] Difference between current(), node() and self ?? From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:05:36 +0100 |
> Until now, I thought that > <xsl:value-of select="self"/>, <xsl:value-of > select="node()"/> and <xsl:value-of select="current()"/> > would print out the same values, but found out that this is not true. They are completely different. select="current()" (or select=".", or select="self::node()") selects the context node. select="node()" selects the children of the context node. select="self" selects a child element called self. > > It seems that current() prints out all the values including > its child... current() doesn't "print out" anything. It selects a node. If anything is printed, that's done by whoever it is that selects the node. For example, <xsl:value-of select="current()"/> creates a text node whose content is the string value of the current node (if it's an element, this will be the concatenation of all its descendant text nodes); and if you choose to print out this text node on paper, that's what you will see. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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