Re: [xsl] Calling templates based on node contents

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:06 AM 8/18/2004, David wrote:
>  <xsl:template match="."
> is _very_ strange construct it matches any node whatsoever, so really
> disables the entire template matching process (which is why you were
> having difficulties I expect)

It's not even legal, is it? Aren't axes apart from child:: and attribute:: 
illegal in patterns? "A location path pattern is a location path whose 
steps all use only the child or attribute axes" [XSLT 5.2]. With a sort of 
quasi-exception made for the '//' operator.

Given that (as surely every XSLT programmer learned in XSLT school) "." is 
short for "self::node()", I should think this match would give you an error 
in a conformant processor.

Cheers,
Wendell



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