ALL,
All of you have given me some great information, as well as pointed out a sad
and simple misunderstanding of mine regarding basic XSL. Firstly, I would like
to thank all of you, and then apologize for wasting your time with what was
actually such a simple issue.
I hope to contribute as an answerer soon instead of only as a asker.
HAVE A GREAT DAY.
--- On Wed, 9/3/08, Andrew Welch
<andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
From: Andrew Welch <andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
Subject: Re: [xsl] xslt 1.0 vs xslt 2.0 problem
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2008, 10:42 AM
What I am seeing is that this XSL only checks the FIRST
child node's (B) attribute instead of checking all of
them
XSLT 1.0 has a policy of never failing, so when you pass
more than one
item to something that only expects one, it will use the
first and
ignore the rest (this is sometimes called "First Item
Semantics")
In this case you have:
//A[ contains(B/@a, "foo") ]
The element <A> has many <B> children, but the
function contains() can
only take a single node so the first is used and the
discarded,
effectively making your xpath:
//A[contains((B/@a[1]), 'foo')]
...which you know is wrong because you want to check all
the child nodes.
XSLT 2.0 reversed this concept and will fail early, giving
you a nice
error message instead of silently generating the wrong
output.
--
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/
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