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It's also possible, of course, for the context item to be in a completely different document, or to be an atomic value: <xsl:stream href="data.xml"> <xsl:for-each select="/root/element"> <xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="...."> .... I haven't actually got any tests for that case yet, so I don't know if it will work in Saxon. Michael Kay Saxonica On 31 Jan 2014, at 10:34, Costello, Roger L. <costello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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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