Xalan Bug: Variable changing state!

[Roland <ro...@netquant.com.br>]

I have already send this once to the xalan-dev list but didn't receive any 
resonse, so I will send it again. Maybe I need to be subscribed to that 
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>Hello,
>this seems to be a bug in Xalan(Java):
>If I apply this stylesheet:
>
><?xml version='1.0' encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
>xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
>xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" 
>xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" 
>xmlns:fox="http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions">
><xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>
><xsl:template match="/doc">
><xsl:variable name="tricky" select="current()/@name"/>
>         <xsl:message>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="$tricky"/>
>         </xsl:message>
>
>         <xsl:for-each select="//nasty">
>                         <xsl:message>
>                                 <xsl:value-of select="$tricky"/>
>                         </xsl:message>
>         </xsl:for-each>
></xsl:template>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
>to this xml file:
>
><doc name='rubbish'>
>         <nasty name='gold'/>
></doc>
>
>You will see the output of Xalan turning rubbish into gold!
>The problem is obviously in the current() function in this line:
><xsl:variable name="tricky" select="current()/@name"/>
>
>It seems to store the reference to a nodeset in the variable tricky 
>instead of the nodeset itself. If I change current() to the equivalent 
>"."(a dot) the example works as expected.
>
>Best regards, Roland