Re: [xsl] Template-matching nodes from input vs nodes in variable based on their position

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jorge . chocolate.camera@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> And yet, indeed as per your answers, if I query the position of that
> node, the value returned is 1 instead of 3:
>
>      <xsl:sequence select="$FOO[position() eq 3]/position()"/> b 1
>
> which looks bizarre to me.

If you look at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-path-expressions then 
you see that for
  E1/E2
(where in your case E1 is $FOO[position() eq 3] and E2 the position() 
function call) it says that first E1 is evaluated and then "Each node 
resulting from the evaluation of E1 then serves in turn to provide an 
inner focus for an evaluation of E2".

So doing
  E1/position()
always (as long as E1 evaluates to a sequence of nodes) returns 1 as the 
context size is 1.