In addition to the detailed explanation provided by Dr. Kay, the
problem probably could be avoided altogether had the
<xsl:for-each-group>
instruction been used.
I'd also recommend to use a reference to an xsl:function over using
xsl:call-template
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
On 6/6/06, cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com <cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com> wrote:
I have a document that consists of elements like this.
<ROW>
<CONTRACTOR></CONTRACTOR>
<CASE_NO></CASE_NO>
<SCHD_DATE></SCHD_DATE>
<VERBAL></VERBAL>
<COMPLT></COMPLT>
<DOE_DTE></DOE_DTE>
</ROW>
While there are a few thousand rows, there are only a few distinct values for
CONTRACTOR. I am working on a stylesheet that will perform various counts of
data in these elements.
I thought I would get the distinct values for CONTRACTOR with the
distinct-values() function and the supply each distinct value as a parameter to
an xsl:call-template, like this:
<xsl:for-each select="distinct-values(ROWSET/ROW/CONTRACTOR)">
<xsl:sort select="." />
<xsl:call-template name="contractor-row">
<xsl:with-param name="contractor" select="." />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:for-each>
The context node where this is done is "/" and ROWSET in the root element.
When the xsl:call-template is executed, Saxon gives this error:
"XPTY0020: Finding root of tree: the context item is not a node"
Here is the relevant part of the called template:
<xsl:template name="contractor-row">
<xsl:param name="contractor" />
<tr height="17" style='height:12.75pt'>
<td height="17" class="xl28" style='height:12.75pt;border-top:none'>
<xsl:value-of select="$contractor" />
</td>
<td class="xl26" align="right" style='border-top:none;border-left:none'
x:num="">
<xsl:value-of select="count(/ROWSET/ROW[CONTRACTOR='$contractor'])" />
</td>
... more template here ...
</xsl:template>
The processor emits this error message when evaluating
count(/ROWSET/ROW[CONTRACTOR='$contractor'])
Now if I change the argument to the count() function to read:
count(document('path-to-xml-file')/ROWSET/ROW[CONTRACTOR='$contractor'])
The error goes away. It also returns a value of '0' (zero) for every call of
the function.
Can anyone shed light on any part of this (to me, at least) puzzle?
Thanks.
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cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com - email
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