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Re: position() in xsl:for-each

Subject: Re: position() in xsl:for-each
From: Vidar Ramdal <vramdal@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:34:20 +0200
xsl for each position
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:10:02 +0100, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> > What puzzles me is that following-sibling::*[1] selects the next
> > element in the input tree, and not in the nodeset I select in the
> > for-each.
> 
> All axes always navigate around the original tree. The parent, siblings,
> children, etc of a node are a fixed feature of that node, they don't
> change depending on which node set you are considering.
> 
> Node sets are just unordered sets of nodes you can't navigate around
> them using Xpath notation.

Thank you both!

Guess I'll have to read up on the definition of "context node" and nodesets.


-- 
Vidar S. Ramdal
"Fighting for peace is like [expletive deleted] for virginity"

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