The context changes inside a predicate, so "." inside [] is not normally the
same thing as "." outside the []. "*[name()=.]" selects elements whose name
is the same as their string-value.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Georges Schmitz [mailto:georges(_dot_)schmitz(_at_)heitec(_dot_)de]
Sent: 16 February 2007 09:47
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] "fetching" elements by name with a tokenized
list of names
I don't have a clue why this one works:
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize($extract.element,';')">
<xsl:variable name="name" select="."/>
<xsl:copy-of select="$annex/*[name()=$name]"/>
</xsl:for-each>
and this one not:
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize($extract.element,';')">
<xsl:copy-of select="$annex/*[name()=.]"/>
</xsl:for-each>
tokenize() delivers a sequence of string tokens, so what
makes the difference between referring to a string token in
<xsl:for-each> by "."
directly (the latter) or by using an intermediary variable
(the first case)?
Thanks for clearing this to me,
Georges
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