RE: Retrieving Full XPATH expression

Hello Tom !

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Landon
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 8:51 PM
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> Subject: RE:  Retrieving Full XPATH expression
> 
> 
> This is not exactly what you need, but it might be a good starting point:

>         <!-- Attribute node (test if node is in set of parent's
> attributes) -->
>         <xsl:when test="$node = $node/../@*">

Do you realize that this conditional statement can surprisingly evaluate to true for some element node either ? 
An operator "=" applyed to nodes doesn't test one operand to be the same as another one, it compares their string values instead.
For example, above test will be true for <Book> element:

<Books attr="value" >
	<Book>value</Book>
</Books>

It's a little artificial example, but anyway I don't think it's a good way to detect attribute node type, instead you can use one of thje following approaches : count(. | ../@*) = count(../@*) or generate-id() = generate-id(../@*[name()=name(current())]).

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Oleg Tkachenko,
Multiconn International 


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