RE: RE: New ContextNode Question

> I'm a new arrival to XSLT Kingdom. I would like someone to
> explain in a
> layman terms the different between context and current node and their
> practical applications.
>

The current node is the node most recently selected by xsl:apply-templates
or xsl:for-each. When you go into an XPath expression, the context node is
the same as the current node; but within a predicate, e.g. item[.=3], the
context node is the node that the predicate is testing at the time.

Mike Kay
Software AG


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