RE: [xsl] logical and in selection expression possible?

["Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>]

> Ok, I've run into a bit of a snag.
> When I am passing the union of the nodesets to the applied 
> template, it 
> appears that the template is being activated twice.  I was 
> hoping to be able 
> to access both nodesets at the same time.... unless they are 
> the children of 
> the same parent, is this impossible?

I think you are confused.

When you call xsl:apply-templates you select a set of nodes. For each
node in that set, one template rules is activated: specifically, the
template rule that best matches that node. It may be the same template
rule for all nodes, or it may be different rules for different nodes. If
you select 2 nodes, if they match the same template rule then that
template rule will be activated twice. Within the template rule, you
cannot access the whole node-set, you can only access the specific node
(and you can use position() to determine its position within the
node-set).

Is that any clearer?

Michael Kay
Software AG
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