XSLT current () function
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current () function returns a node-set that contains only the current node. Typically, the current node and context node is the same.
<Xsl: value-of select = "current ()" />
equal
<Xsl: value-of select = / ".">
However, a little different. Let's look at the following XPath expression: "catalog / cd". Expression selects the current node <catalog> child node, and then select the <cd> child node <catalog> node. This means that, at each step of the calculation, "." Has a different meaning.
The following line:
<Xsl: apply-templates select = "// cd [@ title = current () / @ ref]" />
All cd element values will be equal to the value processing title attribute of the current node's ref attribute.
With this difference:
<Xsl: apply-templates select = "// cd [@title = / @ ref.]" />
This will deal with title attribute and a ref attribute with the same value for all cd elements.
grammar
Example 1
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd/artist">
Current node: <xsl:value-of select="current()"/>
<br />
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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