> > >  2 - Here we are inside a loop
> > >  <xsl:template match="results">
> > >   <xsl:for-each select="$teams">
> > >     <xsl:variable name="this" select="."/>
> 
> > >  Again does "." match the value of each team or the  whole team 
> > > element?
> 
> > . is the string value of the current node, not the element itself
> 
>   I don't understand. 


I think Andrew's explanation here was a bit confusing. "." and $this are
nodes. Operations like name(.) or ./@score treat the value as a node. But
other operators like "=" and "+" extract the content of the node - in XSLT
1.0 terms, the string value. So when you say [.='Scotland'], you're using
the string value of the node, but "." is actually the node.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/