Re: Patterns usage in XSLT template rules

On 5/2/05, Ramkumar Menon <ramkumar.menon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sorry for not being clear enough, but I had meant to ask "why are
> patterns like (foo) or (/child::foo) considered invalid patterns as
> per XSLT specification ?"
> Curious  as to whether this kind of a pattern breaks any semantics of XSLT
.
> rgds,

I'll let someone else step in to correct me if I get the language wrong, but:

/ or foo are nodes, while () indicates a function call.  So
"count(current())" or "count(foo)" would both be valid, because the
current() in the first is a function, while the foo in the second is
just a node..

Bruce