RE: xslt 2.0, use case wanted.

    The initial node is in fact available, you can make it a 
    global variable by writing
    
    <xsl:variable name="start" select="."/>

So saxon has this prior to instantiating the first template?
Subtle Mike... too much so for me :-)
 thanks.

In my use case, it would be select="name()"/> to get hold
of 'sect2', and with a little... or a lot more work,
I guess I could find the path to root to get
/part/book/chapter/sect1[3]/sect2[4], but only if I knew
which template had been called first, which takes us on
to the rest of your comments.


    
    It's the initial template and initial mode that aren't 
    available. Template names and mode names are not things 
    that a stylesheet normally manipulates at run-time, and I 
    think if we made them available it would quickly lead to 
    demands to specify modes and template names dynamically in 
    call-template and apply-templates (not that such demands 
    would be new).


If I know the $start value... as the stylesheet programmer,
expecting only, say, one of a few 'start points', I could
determine (non programmatically) the template that would be
called first?
E.g. in the example I gave it would be the template for sect2.



regards DaveP.

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