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RE: Contexts that are atomic values

2005-06-21 15:37:27
More usual is to set a variable to the document node

<xsl:variable name="input" select="/"/>

and then regain your context using $input/key(...)

But yes: once you've gone into a scope where the context item is an atomic
value, you need some kind of handle to yank yourself out again. Perhaps a
current-match() would be useful - but in my view there are already far too
many current-these and current-those, and there's no crime in using
variables. 

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 


-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Charpentier [mailto:charpov(_at_)acm(_dot_)org] 
Sent: 21 June 2005 23:13
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Contexts that are atomic values

Hi,

I need to organize a list of items by genre (@type) so that all the  
items of a given genre end up in the same file.  The following code  
works:

     <xsl:template match="items">
         <xsl:for-each select="distinct-values(item/@type)">
             <xsl:result-document href="html/{.}.html">
                 <xsl:apply-templates select="document('music.xml')/ 
key('by-type',current())"/>
             </xsl:result-document>
         </xsl:for-each>
     </xsl:template>

What bothers me is that I need the 'document("music.xml")' part  
('music.xml' is the xml file I'm processing).  If I don't have it,  
Saxon (8B) complains that it cannot process nodes from an atomic  
context (the string I'm currently processing, I suppose).  
Same thing  
if I use //item[(_at_)type = current()] instead of a call to key().  So,  
whether I use key() or not, I still need to start from 'document 
("music.xml")' and I don't like it.

Is this behavior normal?  Is there a workaround that does not 
require  
me to refer to 'music.xml' explicitly?

Thanks,

MC
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