Yes, I see now, so I should do:
substring(current(), 1, 3)
in order to make these two methods result the same?
--Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 1:50 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] Function within an expression
It should be possible to do like your example (I think :) but it's
definitively possible to create a "local" variable related to current
node:
<xsl:for-each select="$lines">
<xsl:variable name="type" select="substring(., 1, 3)"/>
<record>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$field_definitions/*[(_at_)type
= $type]"/>
...
</record/>
</xsl:for-each>
Yes, you can do this, and you can also do
<xsl:for-each select="$lines">
<record>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$field_definitions/*[(_at_)type =
substring(., 1, 3)]"/>
...
</record/>
</xsl:for-each>
but they aren't the same thing, because the meaning of "." within a
predicate is different from its meaning outside the predicate.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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