2008/9/16 Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com>:
I want to get the name of the fifth monkey (Phil). I thought
this would do it:
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<xsl:template match="forest">
<xsl:text>The fifth monkey's name is:
</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="//monkey[5]/@name"/> </xsl:template>
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But this doesn't seem to work.
This question was last asked (and answered) just 9 hours before your post,
and before that about a week ago.
Hope you'll stick around on the list for a bit now. Read what comes, you can
learn a lot from it, and avoid the embarrassment of asking questions that
have been answered so recently.
It seems a common requirement these days :)
Perhaps all the spec, text books and examples should be changed to say:
"To do a complete scan of the document for foo elements use /descendant::foo"
because:
a) it would avoid the confusion
b) the -or-self part of the // axis is pointless when starting at the root
The descendant-or-self axis (//) should only really be used when
starting from an element somewhere in the tree, and even then with
caution.
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Andrew Welch
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