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RE: Problems passing attributes
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Problems passing attributes
- From: Jarno dot Elovirta at nokia dot com
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:47:51 +0300
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> Just wondering, why doesn't the following work? The period is
> not liked by
> the parser. I expected the period to mean "self", or the
> "table" element.
>
> <xsl:template match="table">
> <xsl:value-of select=".[@border]">
> </xsl:template>
Because Predicates are not allowed to follow an AbbreviatedStep [1]. Use
unabbreviated syntax self::*[@border] instead.
Jarno
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#NT-Step
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