"Joris Gillis" <roac@p...> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
> Tempore 20:28:59, die Monday 01 August 2005 AD, hinc in foro 
> {comp.text.xml} scripsit <rob.guitar.rob@g...>:
>
>> This may be a stupid question, but if you count a self axe will it
>> always return 1?
>
> No, not always.
> This will only return 1 if the context node is a node which has a qname: 
> i.e. elements and processing instructions.

That's not correct.

1)    self::* selects the current node only if it is an element.; not if it 
is a processing instruction.

If the current node is a processing instruction, then the following 
expression (using the "self" axis) selects the current node:

2)    self::processing-instruction()

3)    Regardless of the type of the node, it is selected by:

       self::node()



Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev


>  Not all XSLT - implementations follow this though: AltovaXSLT allows 
> attributes as well.
>
> regards,
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