Re: An unintended incompatibility with xsl:number

Hi, Michael.

Michael Kay wrote on 06/24/2010 01:39:46 PM:
> Consider this source document:
> 
> <doc>
> <a>
> <title/>
> </a>
> </doc>
> 
> and this stylesheet:

[snip]
> <xsl:for-each select="//title">
> <xsl:number from="a" count="a" level="single"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
[snip]

> The XSLT 2.0 specification is explicit that the result should be 
> <out>1</out>
> 
> The XSLT 1.0 specification is not quite so clear-cut, but the simplest 
> reading of it is to produce the result <out/>

I tried this with the Xalan-J interpreter and XSLTC.  In both cases, the 
result was

<out>1</out>

I also tried the XSLT compiling processor (mostly unrelated to XSLTC) that 
is included in IBM's Java 6.0.  The result on that processor was

<out/>

Thanks,

Henry
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