Re: Testing the type of the current node

> >       <xsl:when test="self::text()">
> 
> I can't see anything wrong with this, though I haven't had time to try it.
> Which product(s) have you tried it on - it's always worth telling us. And if
> you really think something should work and isn't working, it's always worth
> trying it on more than one product.

Though I did, and I thought that both XT and Saxon produced false in
this circumstance, I went back this morning and wrote the following test
case to be absolutely sure that I was right.  Strange but true, Saxon
seems to have a bug in this department:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:variable name="textnode">Text node</xsl:variable>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:for-each select="document('')/*/xsl:variable">
    <xsl:text>child::text() = </xsl:text>
      <xsl:choose><xsl:when test="child::text()">true</xsl:when>
                  <xsl:otherwise>false</xsl:otherwise></xsl:choose>
    <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:for-each>
  <xsl:for-each select="document('')/*/xsl:variable/text()">
    <xsl:text>self::text() = </xsl:text>
      <xsl:choose><xsl:when test="self::text()">true</xsl:when>
                  <xsl:otherwise>false</xsl:otherwise></xsl:choose>
    <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

>From Saxon:

child::text() = true
self::text() = false

>From XT:

child::text() = true
self::text() = true

 Steve


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