Re: [xsl] AVT retrieves whole nodeset instead of the required single node

Subject: Re: [xsl] AVT retrieves whole nodeset instead of the required single node
From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:27:26 +0000
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 21 November 2012 16:11, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>   <xsl:template match="yearlyFigures[figure/last() =
>> preceding::line/period/last()]/figure">
>>     <figure year="{preceding::line/period[current()/@year]}">
>>        <xsl:apply-templates/>
>>     </figure>
>>   </xsl:template
>
> It's probably that the current()/@year has an EBV of true as its a non
> empty string.
>
> Instead you want [position() = current()/@year] or maybe
> [number(current()/@year)]
>

Hah .... I tried xs:integer(@year) which didn't work but that was
because I didn't have current(). Never tried it again after fixing
that.

number(..) works fine. thanks.

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