Re: [xsl] Saxon CE, result-document and Xpaths

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/09/2011 19:52, Eliot Kimber wrote:
> The @href value is an attribute value template, so you need
> href="{//table[1]/td}"
No, I don't think that's correct - unless the location you want to write 
it is contained at the location //table[1]/td, which I suspect isn't the 
case.

Michael Kay
Saxonica
> > The Saxon CE documentation states:
> >
> > > The form<xsl:result-document href="?select=//table[1]/td">  where 
> > > the select parameter is an XPath expression that is evaluated relative 
> > > to the root of the HTML document.
> > I am using XSLT the populate an HTML page. When I execute such a 
> > result-document command from my<xsl:template match="/">  context 
> > nothing gets produced. 
> >
> >  From the same context, using an id ( eg<xsl:result-document 
> > href="#books">  ) works fine. 
> >
> > I am expecting to be able to populate a page using an XPath in the 
> > result-document command. Have I misunderstood the documentation? 
> >
> > Thanks