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

"G. Ken Holman [email protected]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.xsl.general.mulberrytech
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Thank you, Christophe, for still having that 
diagram available readily as a web page!

Back in 2014 I released my PDF books (on which I 
had based my training) for free, including the 
one on XSLT/XPath and the one on XSL-FO. They are 
available both in US-letter and A4 page sizes here:

http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/training/index.htm

Page 72 of the XSLT/XPath book has a version of 
that diagram that appears to be more current than what Christophe has.

I hope members of the list find these books useful!

. . . . . . . Ken

At 2020-11-05 19:52 +0000, Christophe Marchand [email protected] wrote:
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>You mean that one : 
>https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/reference/templating/macros/xslt/xpath-axes-and-their-shortcuts 
>?
>
>Christophe
>
>Le 05/11/2020 à 17:50, Dave Pawson [email protected] a écrit :
>>On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 14:46, Martin Honnen [email protected]
>><[email protected]> wrote:
>>>Am 05.11.2020 um 15:11 schrieb Chris Papademetrious
>>>>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.
>>I think:
>>    This relates to understanding the mental model?
>>
>>My view:
>>    'here' (.) is the current node / position in the input document tree
>>that is being processed.
>>
>>View the 'tree' in your head, and you may see the parents, siblings,
>>children of this node (point in the document tree).
>>Ken Holman has (had?) a good picture of this which may help.
>>    Then decide what you want to do next?
>>    When you have this model in your head comfortably, you may be happy using
>>xsl:apply-templates to process the children of the current-node, using
>>the xsl 'model'.
>>
>>
>>HTH


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