I think I was trying to ask, is the template content of a variable
treated as its own document? It would make sense if it were, considering
it's possible to create new nodes within it, rather than creating a set
of references to nodes in the original document when @select is used.
Then exsl:node-set() essentially acts like document(), correct? I think
I was getting confused because I started out making copies of the nodes
in the template content.
~ Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 1:47 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] Context document with exsl:node-set()?
What happens to the context document when you use this in XSLT 1.0?
Technically there's no such thing as the "context document", though it's
a
convenient shorthand for "the document containing the context node".
My suspicions
are that the context document changes to the contents of
$structured-data when I apply-templates to it
Correct, when you apply-templates to a node that node becomes the
context
node.
If you need to refer back to the original document, it's usually best to
have a global variable bound to it.
<xsl:variable name="main-doc" select="/"/>
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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