Re: [xsl] xsl:number and conditional

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/31/05, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't understand why you've changed a "correctly working stylesheet".

I thought we concluded that the for-each was unnecessary with 2.0, and
I didn't realize the counting wasn't working correctly until later
(earlier today in fact).

> > Saxon (8.4) will not allow me to remove the $footcitable on the count,
> > nor to add it as context to the footnote.
>
> Your original "correctly working stylesheet" didn't have $footcitable in
the
> count pattern, and works with Saxon 8.4, so I don't understand what you
mean
> by this. And I don't know what you mean by "add it as context to the
> footnote" either!

Put simply, Saxon will not allow this:

    <xsl:number level="any" select="$footciteable"
      count="footnote|citation[not(ancestor::footnote)]"/>

.. nor this:

    <xsl:number level="any" select="$footciteable"
      count="$footciteable/footnote|citation[not($footciteable/ancestor::foot
note)]"/>

In the first case, I get this error:

Axis step ancestor::element(footnote) cannot be used here: the context
item is undefined

This is incorrect?

Bruce