OK. One more question;

what is the difference between:

self::*[@border]
*[@border]
node()[@border]

I noticed from your link that self:: is an Xpath declaration. Is Xpath built
into XSL or would I need to specific Xpath namespace declaration? Aside from
testing and then trying to determine if a namespace is missing or if the
command was entered incorrectly, how could one tell if a namespace is or is
not required?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: October 1, 2001 6:48 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Problems passing attributes 
> 
> 
> > Just wondering, why doesn't the following work? The period is 
> > not liked by
> > the parser. I expected the period to mean "self", or the 
> > "table" element. 
> > 
> > <xsl:template match="table">
> > 	<xsl:value-of select=".[@border]"> 
> > </xsl:template>
> 
> Because Predicates are not allowed to follow an 
> AbbreviatedStep [1]. Use
> unabbreviated syntax self::*[@border] instead.
> 
> Jarno
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#NT-Step
> 
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