Re: [xsl] Locating an attribute and its value indirectly

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/11/2011 17:15, Wendell Piez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/4/2011 9:27 PM, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> > The current() function returns that node that was current at the
> > beginning of the evaluation of the XPath expression.
>
> I'm sure Ken won't mind if I add a little color commentary. It may 
> help to keep in mind that the "context node" is an XPath concept, 
> while the "current node" is an XSLT concept.

That's the way the 1.0 specifications described it. In 2.0 both specs 
speak of the context item, and the current() function, rather 
inelegantly, is defined as returning "the item that was the context item 
at the point where the [XPath] expression was invoked from the XSLT 
stylesheet. "

Michael Kay
Saxonica