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RE: error executing path expression

Subject: RE: error executing path expression
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 14:00:04 +0100
xsl tokenize path
In XSLT 2.0 the context item can be either a node or an atomic value. When
you do this:

<xsl:variable name="split" 
              select="tokenize(replace($AName,'(.)([A-Z])','$1 $2'), ' ')"/>

        <xsl:for-each select="$split">

tokenize() returns a sequence of strings, so within the for-each the context
item is a string. This means that when you use a relative path expression
TopContext/*... the system doesn't know what it's relative to. Perhaps you
intended it to be relative to the node that was the context item outside the
for-each, in which case the answer is to bind that to a variable, and use
the variable at the start of the path expression:

<xsl:variable name="c" select="."/>
<xsl:variable name="split" 
              select="tokenize(replace($AName,'(.)([A-Z])','$1 $2'), ' ')"/>

        <xsl:for-each select="$split">
           <xsl:value-of select="$c/TopContext/*...

But actually looking at your code I think you might actually have intended
it to be relative to the root of that document, in which case you would want

<xsl:variable name="c" select="/"/>

Whichever it is, you need to be explicit.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rahil [mailto:qamar_rahil@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 May 2005 12:18
> To: XSL List
> Subject:  error executing path expression
> 
> Hi
> 
> I am getting an error "FATAL ERROR: The context item for an 
> axis step is 
> not a node"
> 
> on the line <xsl:if 
> test="TopConcept/*[lower-case(name())=lower-case($archTerm)]">
> </xsl:if>.
> 
> My structure is such
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------------
> <xsl:template match="/">
>         <TopConcept name="{TopConcept/@name}">
>             <xsl:apply-templates select="TopConcept"/>
>         </TopConcept>
>     </xsl:template>
>    
>     <xsl:template match="TopConcept">
>             <xsl:for-each select="/*/*/O/Class[text()=$notPresent]">
>                 <xsl:variable name="clsName" 
> select="..//preceding-sibling::A/Class/text()"/>
>                      <xsl:if 
> test="matches($clsName,'(.)([A-Z])')"><!--only call the template if 
> there is any word to split-->
>                         <xsl:call-template name="splitTerm">
>                             <xsl:with-param name="AName" 
> select="$clsName"/>
>                         </xsl:call-template>
>                     </xsl:if>
>               </xsl:for-each>
>     </xsl:template>
>    
>     <xsl:template name="splitTerm">
>         <xsl:param name="AName"/> <!-- Eg: AName = 'NextTime' -->
>         <xsl:variable name="split" 
> select="tokenize(replace($AName,'(.)([A-Z])','$1 $2'), ' ')"/>
>    
>         <xsl:for-each select="$split">
>             <xsl:variable name="ATerm" select="."/> <!-- 
> ATerm = 'Next' -->
>             <xsl:if test="string-length($ATerm)>2">
>                 <xsl:if 
> test="TopConcept/*[lower-case(name())=lower-case($archTerm)]">
> </xsl:if>   
>       <!--look for existence of <Next> as a child of <TopConcept>  -->
>                                                               
>           
>                                                               
>           
>                                     <!-- PROBLEM WITH THIS 
> LINE OF CODE-->
>               </xsl:if>
>         </xsl:for-each>
>     </xsl:template>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------------------
> I have tested and seen that current( ) does not return a node( ) but 
> rather the atomic value 'Next' for instance. Prior to using the 
> 'saxon:next-in-chain' feature the code was working fine when 
> I went back 
> to the top node to start a search but now it generates an error. Ive 
> tried several options but none seem to resolve the issue.
> 
> Could someone please help.
> 
> Thanks
> Rahil

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