Re: select attribute in apply-templates

  However, there does seem to be somthing different going on. If I run the
  XSLT below through the MSXML3 parser I get 1 column for the first
  application of the template and 2 for the second. I was assuming this was
  because you cannot use the path queries on an rtf.



I didn't run your code but note that in the 2nd case you have
<xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>

that is each node in the list is the child of an element named root
so parent::*/* selects all the children of the parent element
(ie all your siblings)

In the other case you have
<xsl:apply-templates select="$y/*"/>

but here all your nodes are children of the root node of the variable
so parent::*/* selects all the children of the parent element, but there
is no parent element so this is empty.

I suspect you want parent::node()/* so that it also works when the
parent node is not an element node.

David


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