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In XSL there are two kinds of patterns: match and select. Match patterns may only contain absolute anchors while select patterns can contain both absolute anchors and relative anchors. Now for conditional processing in the case of xsl:if and xsl:when instructions, the patterns tested are select patterns and the contents of these instructions are processed if one or more nodes are selected. What this sounds like to me is that the patterns for xsl:if and xsl:when are really match patterns which can have relative anchors. No they are not really match patterns but they are something different because once you encounter an occurrence of at least one node which matches the pattern, then the condition is satisfied. Perhaps there should be a new pattern in the next release of the spec in addition to the match pattern and the select pattern called a conditional pattern where a pattern is satisfied upon the first occurrence of a match. This would make a lot of sense IMHO as far as clarifications go, even though it would not really change anything fundamental to the current spec with respect to patterns. Tyler xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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