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[xsl] self axis vs .

2008-06-06 06:00:22
An interesting practice I've come across at a client's site is instead
of using . they use self:: instead...

So instead of:

<xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="other"/>

you have

<xsl:apply-templates select="self::elem" mode="other"/>

and instead of:

.//whatever

you have:

self::elem//whatever

While it seemed a little odd to start with, their argument of it helps
locate where you are (especially when . is far away from the match
pattern that's normally used to discover the current node) is
beginning to grow on me...


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Andrew Welch
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Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/

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