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Honza Hejzl
Honza Hejzl

Reputation: 884

Wildcard at the beginning of an XPath for XSLT (over multiple articles)

I have a working scenario but don't know why a particular XPath is working. I iterate over three articles from a database, they are TEI XML. For all of them, I need to put endnotes at the end of a particular article (third in this case).

<xsl:for-each select="//tei:text">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="tei:body"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="*//tei:note"/>
</xsl:for-each>

If I use just //tei:note, notes from the third article are present in all articles. If I use *//tei:note, it works as expected. Am I anchoring the notes to some context or so?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 35

Answers (1)

har07
har07

Reputation: 89285

//tei:note returns all note elements within current XML document, ignoring the context element. Commonly, you put a dot (.) at the beginning to make it relative to the context element.

Regarding your working XPath, basically * gets direct child elements, of any name, from current context element. So yes, you can say that you're 'anchoring' subsequent XPath, //tei:note, to direct child of current contex element by saying *//tei:note.

Upvotes: 1

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