Re: [xsl] Re: Re: xpath for getting file version

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>]

--- Jeni Tennison <mail@jenitennison.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > It would help much more to know that there is another way of finding
> > any maximum. This, as Jeni knows well, is to use a generic template.
> 
> Of course, and I would have mentioned it except that Antony
> specifically wanted a solution that was available to call *within an
> XPath expression* so that he could use it as a key value. As you know,
> templates cannot be called within XPath expressions, so I did not
> think generic templates were particularly useful in this case.

Sorry, but not even one of these four solutions offers a single XPath expression
without some preparatory steps. Isn't it correct to say that we do not know of a
single XPath expression solution (I discard any non-XSLT approach  (e.g. extension
functions) as primitive and incorrect)?

> 
> Or perhaps you've found a way around it that I'm not aware of?
> 

See the previous paragraph.

Cheers,
Dimitre.

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