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RE: Calling templates based on node contents

2004-08-19 02:16:09
I don't know how conformant MSXSL and .NET XSLT processing is 
in comparision to other processors? 

But no errors with match="." here...

MSXML is generally very conformant, reports of the .NET processor are rather
more mixed. But match="." is definitely not allowed. The grammar for
patterns is extremely simple, and there is no hint of a ".":

[1]             Pattern            ::=          LocationPathPattern     
                        | Pattern '|' LocationPathPattern       
[2]     LocationPathPattern        ::=          '/' RelativePathPattern?

                        | IdKeyPattern (('/' | '//') RelativePathPattern)?

                        | '//'? RelativePathPattern     
[3]     IdKeyPattern       ::=          'id' '(' Literal ')'    
                        | 'key' '(' Literal ',' Literal ')'     
[4]     RelativePathPattern        ::=          StepPattern     
                        | RelativePathPattern '/' StepPattern   
                        | RelativePathPattern '//' StepPattern  
[5]     StepPattern        ::=          ChildOrAttributeAxisSpecifier
NodeTest Predicate*     
[6]     ChildOrAttributeAxisSpecifier      ::=
AbbreviatedAxisSpecifier        
                        | ('child' | 'attribute') '::'

and from XPath 1.0:

[7]     NodeTest           ::=          NameTest        
                        | NodeType '(' ')'      
                        | 'processing-instruction' '(' Literal ')'      

Michael Kay