XSLT Tip

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 21:06 -0500, Chris Lennert wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > Actually, I thought the same thing before my commit, WRT the absolute
> > element path, then promptly forgot to go back and change it.  Thanks for
> > catching this.  The node() thing I didn't realize was an issue.  Are
> > there any usage differences between "node()" and "."?
> > 
> 
> As I understand XPath: "node()" is a node test that yields true for any type of
> node whether it be an attribute, element, et cetera.  The "." is short for
> self::node() and always refers to the node currently being pointed to, the
> context node.  node() can refer to nodes other than the context node, as in
> "child::node()" (all nodes that are immediate children of the context node) or
> "ancestor::node()" (all nodes that are parents, grandparents, etc. of the
> context node).

I understand that node() is a function that can be applied to nodes
other than the current context.  I should have been more clear in my
question; what I meant was, in a given context are:

  <xsl:value-of select="node()"/>

and:

  <xsl:value-of select="."/>

always equivalent?

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