On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 21:06 -0500, Chris Lennert wrote:
Paul W. Frields wrote:
> Actually, I thought the same thing before my commit, WRT the absolute
> element path, then promptly forgot to go back and change it. Thanks for
> catching this. The node() thing I didn't realize was an issue. Are
> there any usage differences between "node()" and "."?
>
As I understand XPath: "node()" is a node test that yields true for any type
of
node whether it be an attribute, element, et cetera. The "." is short for
self::node() and always refers to the node currently being pointed to, the
context node. node() can refer to nodes other than the context node, as in
"child::node()" (all nodes that are immediate children of the context node) or
"ancestor::node()" (all nodes that are parents, grandparents, etc. of the
context node).
I understand that node() is a function that can be applied to nodes
other than the current context. I should have been more clear in my
question; what I meant was, in a given context are:
<xsl:value-of select="node()"/>
and:
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
always equivalent?
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