Kay Michael wrote:

> (Incidentally, I can't see an easy way in the April 99 spec to test in a
> boolean expression whether the current node matches a match-pattern. I would
> have thought it would be useful to allow something like:
> 
> <xsl:if test="matches(CHAPTER[TITLE]//PARA)">
> 
> to test whether the node is a PARA with a CHAPTER ancestor that has a TITLE
> child.

Expressions are powerful enough that this isn't necessary:

<xsl:if test="from-self(PARA) and
from-ancestors(CHAPTER[TITLE])">...</xsl:if>

> In SAXON I made the test a match pattern because a match pattern can refer
> to a select pattern but not the other way round.);

Right, but it means you have to wrap things with ".[" and "]" a lot.

James



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