Re: building a mental model for the "current node" behavior

Am 05.11.2020 um 15:11 schrieb Chris Papademetrious
[email protected]:
> I’m trying to better my understanding of “current node” behavior in
> XSLT, and I have a couple questions.
>
> 1. Which stylesheet elements select the current node “.”?

The dot is used or usable in any XPath expression
(https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-31/#dt-dynamic-context) so I would suggest
to rather look at XPath to understand the context item or context node
as otherwise stuff like
    /items/item[cat[. = /categories/cat]]
will not be understood.


> As a novice, I get confused remembering when the current node
> does/doesn’t change. There’s also this, which I’m trying to grasp:
>
> https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#func-current
>
> What’s a good mental model for remembering this?
>
> 2. Inside an <xsl:template> block, is there a function that returns the
> current **template-matched** node?

That is what the
   current()
function does, I am currently not sure why you first cite it and then
seem to ask for another function doing the job of the current() function.

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