Re: Xalan Bug: transform rubbish into gold

[sc...@us.ibm.com]

Roland, I'm in the South of France right now on a business trip and can't
really respond in detail to this.  However, if you don't hear from one of
the other developers, leave me a direct note and I will try and see if I
can reproduce.

Keep in mind, the best venue for reporting bugs is bugzilla...
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/

-scott




                                                                                                                                       
                      Roland                                                                                                           
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                                               Subject:  Xalan Bug: transform rubbish into gold                                        
                      02/27/2002 06:09                                                                                                 
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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
>