what does select="." mean? 1

[tlhawkins]

I can't seem to find any reference that explains this.

Thanks

 

[k5tm]

It specifies the current node. You will often see this in an xsl:value-of:

<xsl:for-each select="//action">
    <new-action><xsl:value-of select="."/></new-action>
</xsl:for-each>

In this example, the for-each will 'execute' once for each node in the nodeset gathered up by //action. Within the for-each, the context is the current node of that nodeset, so this outputs the value of each different action node.

This is XPath shorthand for the self axis. Learn more about XPath here.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com

 

[tlhawkins]

Thanks,

I thought I knew XPath!