On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It also works to test whether the current node is actually an 'elem' when
> you process it or traverse from it.
>
> Since when it isn't, it is silently filtered out, this could be regarded as
> either a feature or a bug.

I consider self::elem to be a very useful facility just for this reason.

the following example illustrates this:

<xsl:for-each select="*">
  <xsl:if test="self::elem">
    <!-- do something -->
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

Here I am traversing element nodes of any name. If a node in the list
is 'elem', I want to do something ...


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Regards,
Mukul Gandhi