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RE: [xsl] Slow XSLT

2008-03-07 07:56:33

 2 - Here we are inside a loop
 <xsl:template match="results">
  <xsl:for-each select="$teams">
    <xsl:variable name="this" select="."/>

 Again does "." match the value of each team or the  whole team 
element?

. is the string value of the current node, not the element itself

  I don't understand. 


I think Andrew's explanation here was a bit confusing. "." and $this are
nodes. Operations like name(.) or ./@score treat the value as a node. But
other operators like "=" and "+" extract the content of the node - in XSLT
1.0 terms, the string value. So when you say [.='Scotland'], you're using
the string value of the node, but "." is actually the node.

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


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