Re: [xsl] self axis vs .

["Vyacheslav Sedov" <vyacheslav.sedov@xxxxxxxxx>]

it`s for XSLT 1.0 in XSLT 2.0 i prefer use "* except elem"

axis 'self' better work for node type testing for example XPath
"//*[following-sibling::node()[1][self::comment()]]" select all nodes
that immediately followed by comment but maybe it is not optimal way
too

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>    <xsl:apply-template select="*"/>
>>
>>    <xsl:template match="elem">
>>       <!-- do something -->
>>    </xsl:template>
>
> I agree that your suggestion above is more clean.
>
> Following are some use cases where I find self:: axis to be useful.
>
> <xsl:template match="*[not(self::elem)]">
>   <!-- do something -->
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="*">
>   <xsl:if test="not(self::elem)">
>      <!-- do something -->
>   </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Of course there could be alternates ways of writing the logic, like
> using the name() or local-name() function.
>
> We could start of a discussion of for-each vs. apply-templates :) You
> suggested xsl:apply-template over the for-each example I posted. There
> are times when I *don't want to* define a template. I just want to do
> for-each at the place where I am.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mukul Gandhi