Re: building a mental model for the "current node" be

Thank you, Christophe, for still having that
diagram available readily as a web page!

Back in 2014 I released my PDF books (on which I
had based my training) for free, including the
one on XSLT/XPath and the one on XSL-FO. They are
available both in US-letter and A4 page sizes here:

Page 72 of the XSLT/XPath book has a version of
that diagram that appears to be more current than what Christophe has.

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

You mean that one :
https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/reference/templating/macros/xslt/xpath

?

Christophe

Le 05/11/2020 ` 17:50, Dave Pawson dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx a icrit :

On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 14:46, Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am 05.11.2020 um 15:11 schrieb Chris Papademetrious

As a novice, I get confused remembering when the current node
does/doesnt change. Theres also this, which Im trying to grasp:

https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#func-current

Whats a good mental model for remembering this?

2. Inside an <xsl:template> block, is there a function that returns the
current **template-matched** node?

That is what the
    current()
function does, I am currently not sure why you first cite it and then
seem to ask for another function doing the job of the current() function.

I think:
   This relates to understanding the mental model?

My view:
   'here' (.) is the current node / position in the input document tree
that is being processed.

View the 'tree' in your head, and you may see the parents, siblings,
children of this node (point in the document tree).
Ken Holman has (had?) a good picture of this which may help.
   Then decide what you want to do next?
   When you have this model in your head comfortably, you may be happy

xsl:apply-templates to process the children of the current-node, using
the xsl 'model'.

HTH

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