RE: what could select="self:node()[false()] be for?

> 
> XSLTC compiles the following template but at runtime throws 
> an error. Does anyone have a clue what the line
> 
>   <xsl:param name="data" select="self::node()[false()]"/>
> 
> could be doing; is supposed to do; does it make any sense?

Yes, it says that the default value of the parameter is an empty
node-set. Other ways of saying this are equally bizarre: "/.." is
popular, and I quite like "@text()". XPath 2.0 is much less fun, you
just write "()".

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 


> 
> <xsl:template name="POP_UP">
> <xsl:param name="id"/>
> <xsl:param name="data" select="self::node()[false()]"/> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
>  Tom Amiro
> 
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> 
> 


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