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Hi Folks, I learned something neat from Michael Kay. I learned that context node and current streaming position are not always the same. Suppose the XSLT processor is streaming through an input document and has arrived at element N. The <N> element is the current streaming position. Now suppose the XSLT program instructs the XSLT processor: from your current streaming position climb the XML tree and return the name of each ancestor element: <xsl:for-each select="ancestor::*"> <xsl:value-of select="name(.)" /> </xsl:for-each> The context position changes with each iteration of the for-each statement. But the current streaming position remains the same. This is a key concept! /Roger
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